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In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

From Rodney Brooks

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

From Rodney Brooks

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

From Rodney Brooks

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

From Rodney Brooks

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

From Rodney Brooks

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

From Rodney Brooks

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

From Rodney Brooks

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

From Rodney Brooks

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

From Rodney Brooks

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

From Rodney Brooks

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