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R. Brooks: 2023 IEEE Founders Medal
R. Brooks
Also published under: R. A. Brooks, Rodney A. Brooks
Affiliation
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Biography
Rodney Brooks is a robotics visionary. Early on, he saw the future of robotics, then found ways to create that future and bring robots to everyday life. The impact of his work is found everywhere, from the research lab to the consumer market, from the living room to the planet Mars. Brooks realized in the 1980s that robots were large, slow, expensive, and unreliable. A large part of the problem was robot control. Traditional control architecture was centered on the sense, think, act loop. A typical robot used sensors to make a model of the world, reasoned about the model, then took action. It wasn't uncommon for a robot to spend 5 minutes deciding how to move 5 centimeters. So Brooks developed a solution: subsumption architecture, a groundb...Related Videos
R. Brooks: 2023 IEEE Founders Medal
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