From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Rodney Allen Brooks born December 30 1954 in Adelaide Australia is a professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research Outside the scientific community Brooks is also known for his appearance in a film featuring him and his work Fast Cheap and Out of Control Description above from the Wikipedia article Rodney Brooks licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia