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Rodney Brooks
Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics); Panasonic Professor Emeritus at MIT; co-founder of iRobot. Pioneer of behavior-based and collaborative robotics.
United States · 1 current role · 2 foundings
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- Founder
Rethink Robotics was a Boston-based [Collaborative robotics](/companies/collaborative-robotics) company founded by iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks.
Series C · $30M2 models - Founder
Cognitive robot intelligence platform founded by AI pioneer Gary Marcus, building hybrid neuro-symbolic AI for robot reasoning.
Current roles (1)
- Robust.AI Co-founder
Foundings (2)
- Rethink Roboticsfounded 2008-01-01soleno longer at company
- Robust.AIcofounderno longer at company
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Co-founders (1)
- Gary Marcus co-founded Robust.AI
Former / Previously (2)
- Rethink Robotics Co-FounderSecondary-verified
- Rethink Robotics Founder, Chairman & CTO2008-01-01 to 2018-10-01Secondary-verified
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