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Rodney Brooks

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Robots, AI, and other stuff

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65 from 12 Jan 2017 to 2 Aug 2026
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2026 3

  1. Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment
  2. House Cleaning My January 1, 2018 Predictions
  3. Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01

2025 8

  1. A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961
  2. Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity
  3. Alan Turing on Embodied Intelligence
  4. AI: great expectations
  5. Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots
  6. Deployment at scale takes decades
  7. Five new technology predictions for the next decade
  8. Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01

2024 4

  1. Tips For Building and Deploying Robots
  2. Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence
  3. Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Robotics
  4. Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01

2023 6

  1. Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part III
  2. Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink
  3. Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part II
  4. Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part I
  5. What Will Transformers Transform?
  6. Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01

2022 4

  1. Where are the crewed eVTOL videos?
  2. My IEEE Spectrum Columns and Articles
  3. No front seat occupants; adventures in autonomous ride services
  4. Predictions Scorecard, 2022 January 01

2021 2

  1. The Origin of Robot Arm Programming Languages
  2. Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01

2020 5

  1. An Analogy For The State Of AI
  2. How Much Things Can Change
  3. Peer Review
  4. What Networks Will Co-Evolve With AI and Robotics?
  5. Predictions Scorecard, 2020 January 01

2019 4

  1. Guest Post by Phillip Alvelda: Pondering the Empathy Gap
  2. AGI Has Been Delayed
  3. A Better Lesson
  4. Predictions Scorecard, 2019 January 01

2018 9

  1. [FoR&AI] Steps Toward Super Intelligence IV, Things to Work on Now
  2. [FoR&AI] Steps Toward Super Intelligence III, Hard Things Today
  3. [FoR&AI] Steps Toward Super Intelligence II, Beyond the Turing Test
  4. [FoR&AI] Steps Toward Super Intelligence I, How We Got Here
  5. Bothersome Bystanders and Self Driving Cars
  6. [FoR&AI] The Origins of “Artificial Intelligence”
  7. Time Traveling Refugees
  8. The Productivity Gain: Where Is It Coming From And Where Is It Going To?
  9. My Dated Predictions

2017 20

  1. AI/ML Is Not Uniquely Powerful Enough To Need Controlling
  2. What If There Were Men On The Moon Today?
  3. [FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI
  4. [FoR&AI] Machine Learning Explained
  5. [FoR&AI] Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
  6. [FoR&AI] Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
  7. Experiments In Automobile UI/UX
  8. Edge Cases For Self Driving Cars
  9. Is War Now Post Kinetic?
  10. Gas Mileage, with a Side of British Units
  11. Patrick Winston Explains Deep Learning
  12. Robot Is A Hijacked Word
  13. Megatrend: The Demographic Inversion
  14. What Is It Like to Be a Robot?
  15. The End of Moore’s Law
  16. A Fair Fight?
  17. Adding to the Alphabet of Life
  18. Research Needed on Robot Hands
  19. Humanoids of Star Trek
  20. Unexpected Consequences of Self Driving Cars