# Rodney Brooks (@rodney-brooks)

Rodney Brooks is a roboticist known for behavior-based robotics, MIT laboratory leadership, and founding robotics companies.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Rodney Brooks's public record._

## Topics

- [Behavior-based robotics](/@rodney-brooks/behavior-based-robotics.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [MIT leadership](/@rodney-brooks/mit.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Robotics companies](/@rodney-brooks/robotics-companies.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/
- blog: https://www.nae.edu/30128/Dr-Rodney-A-Brooks
- blog: https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/brooks-raibert-rus-named-among-most-important-people-robotics

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "rodney-brooks", "question": "…"}`.