Rodney Brooks
Person on 2 sites
Robotics researcher, emeritus professor at MIT and former director of its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-founder of iRobot and…
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Updated 2026-10-21 -
10 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale. (opens korrents.com)
“Systems which do require remote operations assistance to get full reliability cut into that economic advantage and have a higher burden on their ROI calculations to make a business case for their adoption and therefore…”
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Tesla's robotaxi service is a facade rather than a real driverless service, and it is not on a path to becoming one. (opens korrents.com)
“Tesla (owned by Tesla) has put on a facade of being operational, but it is not operational in the sense of the other two services, and faces regulatory headwinds that both Waymo and Zoox have long been able to satisfy.…”
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Most of the companies now selling a transport technology will quietly disappear, and the survivors will redefine what they are doing without renaming it. (opens korrents.com)
“As with self driving cars, most of the early players in humanoid robots, will quietly shut up shop and disappear. Those that remain will pivot and redefine what they are doing, without renaming it, to something more…”
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A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale. (opens korrents.com)