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Rodney Brooks on Physical AI, Robot Safety and Real-World Deployment
A useful robot has to earn its place in someone’s workflow.
For Rodney Brooks, that means safe interactions, measurable results, and customers who want more.
Recorded in front of a live audience at Circuit Launch in Mountain View with Silicon Valley Robotics, this episode of Automated brings Brian Heater back together with the show’s first returning guest. Rodney, co-founder and CTO of Robust.AI and co-founder of iRobot, draws on decades of building robots to explain what it takes to turn technical progress into a working business.
Rodney discusses scaling beyond 100 deployed robots, handling…
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