says Rethink Robotics founder CTO Rodney Brooks at the Techonomy conference. And that's just the beginning. Brooks, the cofounder of iRobot, maker of the Roomba vacuum robot, believes there are ...

Rethink Robotics co-founder and CTO, former CSAIL director and all-around robot luminary Rodney Brooks joined the Disrupt New York stage this afternoon to tackle some complex questions ...

CAMBRIDGE - Rodney Brooks, the iRobot co-founder who's now behind Boston-based manufacturing robot maker Rethink Robotics, said Wednesday that a natural next frontier for Rethink's human-like ...

Robots have transformed automation across industries such as agtech, automotive, logistics, manufacturing and warehousing. Yet even the most advanced robots typically work in restricted workcells ...

Rodney Brooks is a roboticist who despises cute, seal pup-eyed "companion robots". "Robots should work!" he shouts during an otherwise calm interview in the Boston headquarters of Rethink Robotics ...

Rodney co-founded iRobot. Best known for its Roomba vacuum cleaner, the company makes many other product as well—such as robots that defuse IEDs and other deadly contraptions in war zones.