The entrepreneur and former MIT professor thinks practical humanoid robots and superintelligence are centuries away.

The pioneering roboticist shares, in the first of Newsweek's AI Impact interview series, what 50 years of experience has taught him about AI hype cycles ...

Six principles for thinking about AI from the robotics pioneer behind the Roomba and former head of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the ...

It may come to your attention that we are inundated with technological hype. Self-driving cars, human-like robots and AI chatbots all have been the subject of sometimes outlandishly exaggerated ...

“I like to look at what everyone is doing, find some common thing that they’re all assuming implicitly,” Rodney Brooks said, “and negate that thing.” Brooks, a pioneering roboticist, was speaking ...

Tesla's Cybercab launch last year is one of those tech events that will live in infamy. Alongside his titular vehicle (which has no steering wheel), DOGE billionaire Elon Musk showed off the latest ...

Rodney Derrick Brooks, 66 of Newington, CT, was born on November 7, 1959, in Lincoln, Alabama, to Amanda Brooks and Leroy Brooks, Sr., who raised him with love, strength, and unwavering support. From ...

It may come to your attention that we are inundated with technological hype, the subject of sometimes outlandishly exaggerated predictions and promises. So we should be thankful for Rodney Brooks, an ...