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Rodney Brooks

1954 - Today

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Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics) and is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rodney Brooks is the 206th most popular computer scientist (down from 203rd in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from Australia (down from 476th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Rodney Brooks ranks 206 out of 245. Before him are Fei-Fei Li, Ilya Sutskever, Andrew Morton, Pat Hanrahan, Lex Fridman, and Chieko Asakawa. After him are Sophie Wilson, Stuart J. Russell, Daphne Koller, Bram Moolenaar, Craig Federighi, and Theo de Raadt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Rodney Brooks ranks 658. Before him are Blanka Paulů, Novella Calligaris, Willy Telavi, Geoffrey Marcy, Eberhard Rösch, and Jerry Mateparae. After him are Craig Wasson, Guillermo Mendizábal, Felice Mariani, Paul McNamee, Benny Kohlberg, and Vladimir Vysotsky.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Rodney Brooks ranks 510 out of 1,143. Before him are Rick Mitchell (1955), Shaun Tan (1974), Adelaide Kane (1990), Allan Davis (1980), Larry Perkins (1950), and Adam Garcia (1973). After him are Malcolm Williamson (1931), Michael Rogers (1979), David Gulpilil (1953), Anthony Šerić (1979), Paul McNamee (1954), and Tony Gaze (1920).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Australia

Among computer scientists born in Australia, Rodney Brooks ranks 1. 

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