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“A robot that can navigate around just about any US home, with its steps, its clutter, its narrow pathways between furniture, etc. Lab demo: NET 2026. (What is easy for humans is still very, very hard for robots.)”
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, 2026Rodney Brooks, "My Dated Predictions," rodneybrooks.com, January 1, 2018
No lab demonstration of a robot navigating arbitrary cluttered US homes had appeared by January 2026; Brooks notes that humanoid 'home' demos use movie-set houses with wide clear walkways and no people.