Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks is a prominent Australian roboticist and entrepreneur, best known as a co-founder and former CTO of iRobot, the company behind the Roomba vacuum. He is currently the CTO and Founder of Robust.AI. Brooks also served as the Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and was the founder of Rethink Robotics, which developed the collaborative robots Baxter and Sawyer.