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Moore’s law and energy efficiency emerge as themes in these two lectures on
past and future progress in microprocessors and robotics.

Back in the old days, recalls **Rodney Brooks**, people were not allowed near
computers, because the smoke from human cigarettes might damage delicate
machinery. Then humans had to steer clear of robots, lest they come out on the
losing end of an encounter with a hulking machine limb. But following the
explosion of PC and portable computing technology, the last 10 years have
brought robots into close proximity with people. Brooks says more than nine
thousand robots now serve in the U.S. military, and six million work in human
homes -- including his own line at iRobot.

Brooks attributes this proliferation of AI aides to “IT exponentials that
beget other exponentials.” Leaps in processing speed enormously aided in the
development of essential robotics systems, such as vision, machine learning,
wireless networking, and speech understanding. He shows a robot, “The Cart,”
from Stanford’s AI lab circa 1979. The device relied on a giant mainframe
(shared with the music department), and moved 20 meters in six hours. By 2005,
Stanford’s AI vehicle Stanley was traveling 200 kilometers ...

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