“A robot that can navigate around just about any US home, with its steps, its clutter, its narrow pathways between furniture, etc. Expensive product: NET 2030. Affordable product: NET 2035.”
Roboticist; MIT Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics; co-founder and CTO of Robust.AI
Said Jan 1, 2018Deadline Jan 1, 2035Rodney Brooks, "My Dated Predictions," rodneybrooks.com, January 1, 2018
Brooks says the 2030 and 2035 product predictions are 'in real danger' of being too optimistic, since there has still been no lab demonstration of the underlying capability.