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__Rodney Brooks__ is an Australian [roboticist|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics], author and robotics entrepreneur, former director of the  [MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory], perhaps most known for popularising the [actionist approach|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_based_robotics] to robotics.

Instead of computation as the ultimate conceptual metaphor that helped [artificial intelligence|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence]  become a separate discipline in the scientific community, he proposed that ''action'' or ''behaviour'' are more appropriate to be used in robotics. This is also called __[Behaviour-Based Systems|BehaviourBasedSystems]__ or __[Behaviour-Based Robotics|BehaviourBasedRobotics]__.

In the late 1980s, Brooks and his team introduced [Allen|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_(robot)], a robot using [Subsumption Architecture], a term introduced by Brooks and his colleagues in 1986.


!! References

Among Brooks' many publications, his early papers describing what was at that time an entirely different approach to a robot operating system are very interesting.

* ''[A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot|https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/AIM-864.pdf]'', \\
   Rodney A. Brooks, A.I. Memo 864, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, September 1985.
* ''[A Robot That Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network|http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/AIM-1091.pdf]'' (PDF) \\
    Rodney A. Brooks, A.I. Memo 1091, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, February 1989
* [The Behavior Language; User's Guide|http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/AIM-1227.pdf] (PDF) \\
    Rodney A. Brooks, A. I. Memo 1227, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, April 1990
*  ''[Intelligence Without Reason|https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/AIM-1293.pdf]'' (PDF) \\
    Rodney Brooks, A.I. Memo No. 1293, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, April 1991
* ''[Integrated Systems Based on Behaviors|https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/ssymp.pdf]'' \\
    Rodney A. Brooks, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
* The series of articles: [Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence|http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-future-of-robotics-and-artificial-intelligence/]:
** [The origins of “Artificial Intelligence”|http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-the-origins-of-artificial-intelligence/]  published on April 26, 2018.
** [Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto|http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-domo-arigato-mr-roboto/]  published on August 28, 2017.
** [The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI|http://rodneybrooks.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-predicting-the-future-of-ai/]  published on September 7, 2017.
** [Machine Learning Explained|http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-machine-learning-explained/]  published on August 28, 2017.
** [Steps Toward Super Intelligence I, How We Got Here|https://rodneybrooks.com/forai-steps-toward-super-intelligence-i-how-we-got-here/] , published July 15, 2018.
** [Steps Toward Super Intelligence II, Beyond the Turing Test|https://rodneybrooks.com/forai-steps-toward-super-intelligence-ii-beyond-the-turing-test/] , published July 15, 2018.
** [Steps Toward Super Intelligence III, Hard Things Today|https://rodneybrooks.com/forai-steps-toward-super-intelligence-iii-hard-things-today/] , published July 15, 2018.
** [Steps Toward Super Intelligence IV, Things to Work on Now|https://rodneybrooks.com/forai-steps-toward-super-intelligence-iv-things-to-work-on-now/] , published July 15, 2018.

Also see [References] page, Rodney Brooks' [Publications|https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/publications.html] page, or the [References|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks#Bibliography] section on his Wikipedia page.


!! Links

* [Rodney Brooks|https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/index.html] home page
* [RodneyBrooks.com|https://rodneybrooks.com/|https://rodneybrooks.com/], ''Robots, AI, and other stuff''
* [Rodney Brooks blog|https://rodneybrooks.com/blog/] 
* [Interesting Docs|https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/documents.html], literally, his list of interesting documents and media
* [Rodney Brooks|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks] on Wikipedia

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