EPFL got an audio interview with Rodney Brooks, Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-founder of iRobot, in which he speaks about the future of domestic robots:

“The projects I’m really interested in right now are getting robots to manipulate the world. Successful robots that are commercially available are all navigation machines: they navigate around and they do some tasks, like cleaning the floor […]. The real, widespread use robots, is gonna be when robots can touch the world and physically manipulate it.”

(This interview is part of a series of very interesting podcasts conducted by EPFL)