In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training.| Rodney Brooks
This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago younger me, and this post is one that I wrote for Manufacturing Engineering in March of 1988. It was for the last page of the trade magazine, in a regular feature titled “THE LAST WORD”. You can download a pdf of the original from my MIT website, which has a pencil drawn picture of the 33 year old me (over half my life ago). Below is just the text of that piece, with a few places that I have highlighted as bei...| Rodney Brooks