Rodney A. Brooks Quote

Quanta of force fields can even overlap each other and yet maintain their separate identities. Each field quantum lives and dies a life and death of its own. For example, a quantum of the EM field can be emitted from an atom in the sun, travel through millions of miles of space, spreading out as it goes, and then interact as a single unit with an atom in your eye.

Rodney A. Brooks

Quanta of force fields can even overlap each other and yet maintain their separate identities. Each field quantum lives and dies a life and death of its own. For example, a quantum of the EM field can be emitted from an atom in the sun, travel through millions of miles of space, spreading out as it goes, and then interact as a single unit with an atom in your eye.

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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).