Representative appearances

• Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217

  the following is a conversation with rodney brooks one of the greatest roboticists in history he led the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory at mit then co-founded irobot which is one of the most successful robotics companies ever then he co-founded rethink robotics that created some amazing collaborative robots like baxter and sawyer finally he co-founded robust.ai whose mission is to teach robots common sense which is a lot harder than it sounds to support this podcast please check out our sponsors in the description as a side note let me say that rodney is someone i've looked up to for many years in my now over two decade journey in robotics

• The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariépy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking

  Robotics pioneer, founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics, cited as a major inspiration.

• The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch

  Cited for his work on subsumption architectures and biological robotics.

• The Future of Home Robots | Mehul Nariyawala, Matic

  Robotics expert cited for his study on consumer price thresholds for gadgets.

• The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariépy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking

  Robotics pioneer, founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics, cited as a major inspiration by Ryan Gariépy.