Rodney Brooks

Dr. Rodney A Brooks is a robot builder from MIT. He is the builder of some of the greatest robots with his Subsumption Architecture.

As the Director of Computing and AI Laboratory at MIT, he has contributed a great deal to the field of mobile robotics. He is also the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science.

His robot projects include Kismet, Cog and Genghis. He is the Chairman, and Chief Technical Officer of iRobot, who are responsible for creating “My Real Baby”.

Rodney Brooks has a degree in Pure Maths from Flinders University of South Australia, and in 1981, gained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. At the University of Minnesota, he was the Cray lecturer, then later the Mellon lecturer at Dartmouth College. He was the Hyland lecturer at Hughes, and the Forsythe lecturer at Stanford University. His research has been conducted in academic research positions in Carnegie Mellon University and MIT - he then took a faculty position in the Stanford University, and later in 1984 became an MIT faculty member.

He won the Computers and Thought Award at the 1991 IJCAI and is also a Founding Fellow of the AAAI. He is also a Fellow of the The American Association for the Advancement of Science.