Few voices in artificial intelligence carry as much weight as Rodney Brooks. As a co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics, ...

For Rodney Brooks, thinking up a better way to build robots was the easy part. It took him a dozen years and 14 failed business strategies to turn his idea into Roomba, the first profitable household ...

My recent conversation with Rodney Brooks reminded me that he is that rarest of all humans: the combination of an exceptional mind who also likes to build things. But more than this, he is also ...