Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks

Researcher

Founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics and ran MIT's AI lab. Now at Robust AI, and the most persistent skeptic of humanoid timelines: he publishes a yearly scorecard of predictions that keeps finding the demos ahead of the deployments.

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  1. 2019 – now
    Robust AI, Co-founder and CTO
    Sources Rodney Brooks Wikipedia 2026-09-05