In this episode we interview Rodney Brooks on behavior based robotics. He talks about how mosquitoes in Thailand caused a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence, how to build robots that sell, and how 50 years from now you’ll be fighting with your robot for spare parts.

Related episodes:

• Robots: An Uncertain Revolution -- 12 September, 2008
• Talking Robots: Neural Darwinism and Brain-based Devices -- 23 November, 2007
• Talking Robots: Probabilistic Robotics and the DARPA challenges -- 14 September, 2007
• Talking Robots: Evolutionary Robotics -- 11 May, 2007
• Talking Robots: Resilient Machines through continuous self modeling -- 22 December, 2006