So far the timing on every prediction about self-driving being around the corner has turned out to be wrong. See my annual dated predictions and updates at http://
rodneybrooks.com/blog for details. I appreciate this update from @IEEESpectrum
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Self-driving predictions continue to miss their timelines
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Rodney Brooks Reflects on 2000 Humanoid Robot Research Predictions
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Had forgotten that I had written this back in 2000, soon after my research group had started building humanoid robots (a later company I founded put 1000s of humanoid robots in factories). Trying to decide how well it has stood up over 24 years. https://
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FOMO and Fear of Being Seen as Techno-Pessimist Drive Bad Investments
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There's FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and then there's FOBAWTPALSL (Fear Of Being A Wimpy Techno-Pessimist And Looking Stupid Later). Both drive many questionable tech trends and steer tens of $B's into tar pits.
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Apple Abandons Electric Self-Driving Car Project After Decade
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Apple has killed its electric self driving car project after a decade and lots of $$$ invested.
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Robust AI deploys real robots in warehouses with DHL partnership
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What we are doing at Robust AI. Getting real robots working everyday with real people in real warehouses, and measuring the impact. Those big flat buildings you see from the airplane are full of people and stuff. And now there are robots in there too. https://
dhl.com/us-en/home/pre
ss/press-archive/2024/dhl-supply-chain-partners-with-robust-ai-to-drive-the-future-of-warehouse-automation.html
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Discussion on Robot Arm Programming Languages and Ernst’s Thesis
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2/2 See the long discussion with readers of my blog post https://
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Teleoperating Robots Falsely Presented as Autonomous
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Tele-op robots presented as autonomous. Tesla Optimus humanoid folding a shirt. 1X humanoid robots. Misrepresentations of what robots are actually doing can also be called LIES. Note that the Stanford robot cooking and cleaning videos are also tele-operated.
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Rodney Brooks Keynote Speech at MIT Generative AI Week
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On Nov 28, 2023, I delivered the opening keynote at MIT's Generative AI Week.
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6th Annual Review of 2018 Predictions on Autonomous Driving and Robotics
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Posted 6th annual review of my Jan 1st, 2018, predictions on autonomous driving cars (+electric+flying), robotics and AI, and human spaceflight. The hype around them all meant that people were expecting large scale deployments in unrealistic timeframes. rodneybroooks dot com
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LLMs Impact on AI and Linguistics Debates
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http://
rodneybrooks.com/blog post covering some of my opening keynote on Nov 28th for MIT's Generative AI Week is now up. This is one of the topics I talked about–the impact of the existence of LLMs on three long running debates in AI & linguistics. I have this handle at bsky social.