Rodney A. Brooks Quote

Mass is not weight.....Weight is the pull of gravity -the downward force exerted by the earth. If there is no gravity there is no weight, but there is still inertia. In ordinary speech the two concepts are often blurred, as in a heavy object is harder to push. Nevertheless, weight is the pull of gravity and mass is inertia, and they are different concepts.

Rodney A. Brooks

Mass is not weight.....Weight is the pull of gravity -the downward force exerted by the earth. If there is no gravity there is no weight, but there is still inertia. In ordinary speech the two concepts are often blurred, as in a heavy object is harder to push. Nevertheless, weight is the pull of gravity and mass is inertia, and they are different concepts.

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About Rodney A. Brooks

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics) and currently is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).