Helping robots fit into the human workplace
“In these environments, what really determines success is how the overall system performs,” explains Anthony Jules ’92, SM ’92, who co-founded the company with MIT Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks. “The robot does some of the work, the people do some of the work, and the backend systems do some of the work. It’s that combination that determines how well your system performs. We believe it’s really important that people have an appropriate level of agency and input so that they’re always moving the system forward.”
Collaborative robots
Brooks was a faculty member at MIT from 1984 until 2010 and served as the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from 1997 until 2007. While at MIT, he co-founded iRobot, which invented the popular Roomba vacuum and went public in 2005. Later, he co-founded the company Rethink Robotics, which also designed collaborative robots.
Jules met Brooks as a...
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