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{{Short description|Australian roboticist}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Rodney Brooks | birth_name = Rodney Allen Brooks | image = Rodney Brooks in 2021.jpg | caption = Brooks in 2021 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1954|12|30}} | birth_place = [[Adelaide]], [[Australia]] | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Australian | field = [[Robotics]] | alma_mater = [[Stanford University]]<br>[[Flinders University]] | workplaces = [[Stanford University]]<br>[[MIT]] | doctoral_students = [[Lynne Parker]]<br>[[Maja Matarić]]<br>[[Charles Lee Isbell Jr.]]<br>[[Cynthia Breazeal]]<br>[[Yoky Matsuoka]]<br>[[Holly Yanco]] | awards = [[IJCAI Computers and Thought Award]] | website = {{URL|rodneybrooks.com}} }} '''Rodney Allen Brooks''' (born 30 December 1954<ref>{{Cite news |title=Rodney Brooks {{!}} Biography, Robots, & Facts |language=en |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rodney-Allen-Brooks |access-date=2022-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/471/000128087/|title=Rodney Brooks|work=[[NNDB]]|access-date=23 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825181942/http://www.nndb.com/people/471/000128087/|archive-date=25 August 2016}}</ref>) is an Australian [[robotics|roboticist]], [[Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science]], author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the [[behavior based robotics|actionist approach]] to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and former director of the [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]]. He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of [[iRobot]]<ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/companies.html Companies – CSAIL People – MIT]</ref> and co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of [[Rethink Robotics]] (formerly Heartland Robotics) and is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/10/28/startup-robustai-founded-by-cognitive-scientist-gary-marcus-and-roboticist-rodney-brooks-raises-15-million-to-make-building-smarter-robots-easier/?sh=7dc89916f4b8|title=Startup Founded by Cognitive Scientist Gary Marcus and Roboticist Rodney Brooks Raises $15 Million to Make Building Smarter Robots Easier|website=[[Forbes]] |last1=Feldman |first1=Amy }}</ref>
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