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Dr Brooks shares some of his underlying principles in technology, academia and business, as well as past and future challenges. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 Dr Brooks received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1981. He held research positions at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT, and a faculty position at Stanford before joining the faculty of MIT in 1984. He is also a Founder, Board Member and former CTO (1991-2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). Dr Brooks is the former Director (1997-2007) of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and then the MIT Computer Science &amp; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He founded Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics) in 2008. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 While at MIT, in 1988, Dr Brooks built Genghis, a hexapodal walker, designed for space exploration (which was on display for ten years in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.). Genghis was one of the first robots that utilized Brooks\u2019 pioneering subsumption architecture. Dr Brooks\u2019 revolutionary behavior-based approach underlies the autonomous robots of iRobot, which has sold more than 12 million home robots worldwide, and has deployed more than 5,000 defense and security robots; and Rethink Robotics\u2019 Baxter, the world\u2019s first interactive production robot. Dr Brooks has won the Computers and Thought Award at the 1991 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the 2008 IEEE Inaba Technical Award for Innovation Leading to Production, the 2014 Robotics Industry Association\u2019s Engelberger Robotics Award for Leadership and the 2015 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award.<\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ir-10-2014-0406","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,14]],"date-time":"2015-01-14T04:57:11Z","timestamp":1421211431000},"page":"1-4","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The Pransky interview: Dr Rodney Brooks, Robotics Entrepreneur, Founder and CTO of Rethink Robotics"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"42","author":[{"given":"Joanne","family":"Pransky","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","container-title":["Industrial Robot: An International Journal"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1108\/IR-10-2014-0406","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/IR-10-2014-0406\/full\/xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/IR-10-2014-0406\/full\/html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,24]],"date-time":"2025-07-24T21:40:04Z","timestamp":1753393204000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emerald.com\/ir\/article\/42\/1\/1-4\/174988"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,19]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,19]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1108\/IR-10-2014-0406"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/ir-10-2014-0406","relation":{},"ISSN":["0143-991X"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0143-991X"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,19]]}}}