Rodney Brooks

Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Panasonic Professor of Robotics

Rodney Brooks is Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics. He is also Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corp (nasdaq: IRBT) . His research is concerned with both the engineering of intelligent robots to operate in unstructured environments, and with understanding human intelligence through building humanoid robots. He has published papers and books in model-based computer vision, path planning, uncertainty analysis, robot assembly, active vision, autonomous robots, micro-robots, micro-actuators, planetary exploration, representation, artificial life, humanoid robots, and compiler design.