43 Quotes by Rodney Brooks

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.