Is it possible to have a robot achieve human-level dexterity just by watching video tutorials? To answer these questions, I talked to Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of iRobot and one of the leading ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...

Could the world’s “biggest product” turn out to be its biggest fantasy? Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of iRobot and a pioneer ...

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks warns that the vision of humanoid robots as general assistants is unrealistic due to a biological barrier: dexterity. He argues that current AI cannot learn the ...

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