Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the future Elon Musk envisions, is “pure fantasy thinking,” in part because ...

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Humanoid robot investments face skepticism as industry leader Rodney Brooks warns current designs may never deliver.

Rodney Brooks, a renowned roboticist who co-founded iRobot and is a former MIT researcher, has warned that current ...

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Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

After four years of hype, Optimus shows some progress, yet the humanoid struggles to prove it's worth beyond staged demos.

Robot vacuums create detailed digital maps of your home that manufacturers often upload to cloud servers, raising privacy concerns about spatial data sharing.

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With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The ...