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Rodney Brooks

Australian

December 30, 1954

Scientist

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The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

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

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People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'

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I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

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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.

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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.

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I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

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