{"id":340211,"date":"2017-05-06T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1485903"},"modified":"2017-05-06T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:37:08","slug":"rethink-robotics-and-irobot-founder-rod-brooks-is-coming-to-disrupt-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/rethink-robotics-and-irobot-founder-rod-brooks-is-coming-to-disrupt-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethink Robotics and iRobot founder Rod Brooks is coming to Disrupt NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the Errol Morris documentary\u00a0Fast, Cheap &\u00a0Out of Control,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0robotic scientist Rodney Brooks predicted a future where sensors and robots would be pervasive, and people could simply tell a door to open. That was 1997.<\/p>\n

Brooks\u2019 prognostication has now come to pass. Voice control and the Internet of Things are here. Robots, or \u201cartificial creatures\u201d as he sometimes has called them, are growing ever more intelligent.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Brooks<\/a> and the companies he\u2019s founded, robots go to work on a daily basis alongside people in our homes and on our factory floors. If you care about robots, at all, Brooks \u2014 the entrepreneur, MIT professor and author \u2014 is no doubt a familiar name to you.\u00a0If not, here\u2019s a recap of some of his more commercial achievements: He co-founded a company called iRobot<\/a> that created the vacuum-cleaning Roomba robot and military robots used to disarm explosives; he also started Rethink Robotics<\/a>, whose newest Sawyer<\/a> robots are used to do \u201cdull, dirty and dangerous\u201d tasks\u00a0in manufacturing, leaving people to more interesting work\u00a0that\u2019s less likely to physically hurt them.<\/p>\n

Brooks\u2019 companies aren\u2019t the only ones focusing on making robots smarter, safer and more collaborative with people and each other. But his work has inspired generations of robotics engineers, and helped them\u00a0find a path to success outside of academia and defense.<\/p>\n

Brooks will be joining us onstage at Disrupt NY<\/a>. We\u2019ll ask him what it will take to\u00a0make the robots of science fiction into reality, how\u00a0he thinks robotics will make the greatest impact on humanity in his lifetime and more.<\/p>\n

Check out the agenda here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can still get tickets to Disrupt NY<\/a>, which takes place at Manhattan\u2019s Pier 36 May 15-17. See you there!<\/p>\n

Sponsors make TechCrunch events possible. If you\u2019re interested in learning more about sponsorships with TechCrunch, send a message to our sponsor team here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" In 1997, robotic scientist Rodney Brooks predicted a future where sensors and robots would be pervasive, and people could simply tell a door to open. His prognostication has come to pass. Brooks will be onstage at Disrupt NY to discuss what it will take to make the robots of science fiction into reality, how robotics will make the greatest impact on humanity in his lifetime and more. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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