One of the enduring lessons of the iPhone era is that Steve Jobs led with what the consumer didn't know they wanted until he showed it to them. Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks has operated from a ...

When Aaron Tan began his Ph.D. in mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto in 2019, leading a robotics startup in Silicon Valley was the furthest thing from his mind.

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 ...

Few voices in artificial intelligence carry as much weight as Rodney Brooks. As a co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics, a former director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...