April 2002
Lord of the Robots
The director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab says the age of smart, mobile machines is already beginning. You just have to know where to find them--say, in oil wells.
By Technology Review
"Computer! Turn on the lights!" Rodney Brooks, director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory-the largest A.I. lab in the world-strides into his ninth-floor office in Cambridge, MA. Despite his demand, the room stays dark. "Computer!" he repeats, sitting down at the conference table.
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