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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.

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Rethink Roboticsfounded 2008-01-01soleno longer at company

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Rethink Robotics Co-FounderSecondary-verified
Rethink Robotics Founder, Chairman & CTO2008-01-01 to 2018-10-01Secondary-verified

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273338952_The_Pransky_interview_Dr_Rodney_Brooks_Robotics_Entrepreneur_Founder_and_CTO_of_Rethink_Robotics
https://www.nist.gov/director/vcat/biography-rodney-brooks

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