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Rodney Brooks, Co-Founder Of Rethink

Source: NPR, Nov 8 2012, 11:13am CST

Jessica Harris talks to Rodney Brooks, co-founder of Rethink, a company that makes robots for the manufacturing industry. In 1990 Dr. Brooks founded iRobot, which makes robots for the consumer and defense indus ...

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Not all robot maids created equal: Roomba vs. Skooba

Source: Globe and Mail | May 24 2013, 6:29am CDT

For the past 12 years, iRobot’s done its best to help us forget that the flying cars and jetpacks we were all promised in our youth have failed to materialize. How? By filling our homes with robots, of course. I recently spent ...

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Indian Computer Wizkid Joins PayPal Co-Founder's Startup Nursery

Source: Silicon India | May 20 2013, 7:39am CDT

Bangalore: A 19 year old Indian computer wiz kid, Diwank Singh Tomer, has just moved to Silicon Valley to join a startup that is to be founded by PayPal co-founder and Facebook’s first investor, Peter Thiel, reports India Tod ...

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360° Coverage : Rodney Brooks, Co-Founder Of Rethink

Rodney Brooks, Co-Founder Of Rethink

Not all robot maids created equal: Roomba vs. Skooba