Rodney Brooks
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Rodney Brooks
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Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
4/4 ""Companies must demonstrate they can generate recurring revenue, are on a path to narrow their losses or achieve real innovation before approvals can be considered, the people added."
September 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
3/4 "The Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission recently gave its informal “window guidance” to some investment banks and investment firms that it is raising the bar for granting approval of humanoid IPOs, according to people with knowledge of the matter. ... "
September 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
2/4 "Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree Robotics, as they aim to cool down a sizzling sector rife with copycats but little real technological breakthroughs."
September 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
3/3 I have many technical reasons for questioning the naïvety of this approach for learning navigation, but a big reason that this will lead to horrible robot behaviors is that games explicitly do not care about your interactions with NPCs and this approach ignores human factors in the environment.
July 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM
2/3 "Teaching robots to navigate the real world by watching people play games is an emerging AI technique using video footage and button-press logs from human gameplay. This lets algorithms learn spatial awareness, movement choices, and goal-directed paths w/o expensive physical data collection."
July 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM