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Keynote Speaker: Rodney Brooks |
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| One of the leading pioneers in robotics technology will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 Robotics Alley Conference and Expo, to be held November 12-13 at RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minn. Dr. Rodney Brooks will be speaking at 3:45 p.m. November 13 on the topic “Man and Machine: The Future of Humanity and Robotics.” |
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Rodney Brooks |
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Founder, CTO, and Chairman
Rethink Robotics |
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Rodney Brooks (full bio) is founder, CTO, and Chairman of Rethink Robotics, a 2008 Boston-based startup. The company is developing a new class of industrial robot that will help keep manufacturing jobs in America. Rethink's robots are to current industrial robots what the PC was to the mainframe. The new robots are made in the USA.
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| Brooks was also a co-founder of iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT) and was variously CTO, Chairman, and board member from 1990 until 2011. From 1984 to 2010 he was on the faculty at MIT as the Panasonic Professor of Robotics, and was the director of MIT CSAIL, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. While at MIT he developed the behavior-based approach to robotics that underlies the robots of both iRobot and Rethink Robotics. |
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Don't miss Rodney Brooks, creator of Baxter! |
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Robotics AlleyTM is an initiative to spur public-private partnerships in the business, research, and development of robotics and automation systems. Robotics leaders will share their insights into the worldwide explosion of robotics and autonomous systems on November 12-13, 2013 at the Robotics Alley Conference and Expo, Saint Paul RiverCentre in Saint Paul, MN. |
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