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__Rodney Brooks__ is an Australian [roboticist|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics], author and robotics entrepreneur, 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. 

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 

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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