Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks, the director of the MIT CSAIL and the Panasonic professor of Robotic, answers some e-mails from his MIT office in the Stata Center. In addition to his role at MIT, Brooks is the co-founder and chief technology officer of iRobot and invented the proprietary technology that goes into the Roomba vacuuming robot and Scooba floor-scrubbing robot.

May 15, 2007 3:55 AM PDT

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