🎉🎉 The Predictions Scorecard: where Rodney Brooks valiantly attempts to turn his crystal ball-gazing into a thrilling blog post. 🤖🔮 Just because you *can* predict the future doesn't mean you *should*—or that anyone will care! 📅🤣
https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2026-january-01/ #PredictionsScorecard #RodneyBrooks #FutureGazing #BlogPost #TechHumor #CrystalBall #HackerNews #ngated
#RodneyBrooks
This is a good read if you're trying to understand the future in autonomous tech and AI. #RodneyBrooks is a pioneer in #robotics and #AI (parent of the roomba among other things) and just an interesting guy. He benchmarks his 2018 predictions against progress at the start of every year. I find the realism and honesty refreshing. That’s not a 100% agree with everything but he‘s thought provoking @rodneyabrooks
https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2026-january-01/.
How iRobot lost its way home
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/
“However, #hardware is much harder than #software. Unlike software that runs in a virtual world, the laws of #physics are unforgiving and immutable, and safely interacting with the physical world requires a great deal of #SensoryInput. #RodneyBrooks, who has been working on #robot #manipulation since the 1970s, argues these companies are missing the fundamental ingredient for dexterous manipulation: the *sense of touch*.
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These approaches, Brooks argues, ignore decades of research showing that #HumanDexterity depends on an extraordinarily complex touch-sensing system. He cites work from #RolandJohansson's lab at #UmeåUniversity showing that when a person's fingertips are anesthetized, a seven-second task of picking up and lighting a match stretches to nearly 30 seconds of fumbling.”
#robotics / #FallingRobots 🤖 <https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/>
#AGI könnte noch 300 Jahre entfernt sein – sagt #RodneyBrooks https://share.google/6Ojd52kXCSBf5kSSO
Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots https://arstechni.ca/RzKe #AIdevelopmenttools #AgilityRobotics #machinelearning #RethinkRobotics #bostondynamics #humanoidrobots #walkingrobots #manipulation #rodneybrooks #AIresearch #dexterity #ElonMusk #Robotics #optimus #robotAI #Biz&IT #Figure #iRobot #openai #robots #safety #Tesla #Tech #MIT #AI
#RodneyBrooks: Despite significant investment, #humanoidrobots are unlikely to achieve #humanlevel #dexterity in the near future. The manipulation challenge remains a significant #hurdle, with existing #robotichands lacking the robustness, force, and longevity required for real-world applications. Humanoid robots will likely differ significantly from both current designs and human anatomy. https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
"But... you wouldn't put Rodney Brooks MIT-robot space-spiders into your space-opera sci-fi stories, would ya"
*Well, yeah, I kinda would do that, actually. #RodneyBrooks #scifiwriters #wheredotheygetthoseweirdideas
flic.kr/p/2r5f2e6
Spider Rose outer-space spider...
Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
“What the large language models are good at is saying what an answer should sound like, which is different from what an answer should be.”
It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph.
#RodneyBrooks #ChatpGPT #OPenAI #artificialintelligence #ai #generativeAI #robot #robots #robotics #technology #tech #innovation
Just Calm Down About #GPT-4 Already
And stop confusing performance with competence, says #RodneyBrooks https://spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-4-calm-down
Interesting take by #rodneybrooks on #chatgpt:
https://rodneybrooks.com/what-will-transformers-transform/
Despite the sometimes astonishing results, it's good to keep in mind that #transformers might just be very good in pretending to be smart.
... they don't have a world model.
... they stumble/ hallucinate in uncharted territory.
However, supervised by a human they will probably become very effective in certain tasks.
Rodney Brooks on GPT-*: AI professor reflects on the current AI trend
https://rodneybrooks.com/what-will-transformers-transform/
#intelligence #rodneybrooks #chatgpt #mit #ai #+
Old but gold. #rodneybrooks on the @ieee_bot spectrum "Deep Learning’s Little-Known Debt to The Innovator’s Dilemma. A small band of believers triumphed after years of quietly plugging away"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/deep-learnings-little-known-debt-to-the-innovators-dilemma-2657507716
I have been "following" Rodney Brooks since "Subsumption Architecture For A Mobile Robot" 1984/85/86. My mobile robots have drawn heavily on that architecture and stayed closer to Braitenberg Vehicles [1984] than to anything that might be mistaken for artificial intelligence. When I saw the intense sensor suite of the car Rodney Brooks was about to enter, https://twitter.com/rodneyabrooks/status/1530062465223954433/photo/1 the thought came to mind "Wouldn't a human driver just be simpler?" #RodneyBrooks #AutonomousVehicles #Robots
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