Rodney Brooks

One of episode of Big Thinkers features Rodney Brooks, who is an Australian computer scientist and former Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the following video, Rodney told about how was his infancy, and how he started to get involved in building things that are intelligent. He also presented the recent investigations on robots of those day, and a immense amount of questions about the purpose of building a robot, but mainly

 he wants to understand: What is life? 

Working with Robots at his personal experience is going from failure to failure with no visible rewards, however at the end, he said every ten years he got one of the biggest rushes in his field of research.