ClaimsRodney Brooks

“Tous les logiciels qui font ça maintenant sont développés par d’autres personnes.”

Rodney Brooks, interviewee 16 December 2014 Interview de Rodney Brooks à Paris : Robots collaboratifs, Rethink Robotics et Baxter (Shy Robotics)

Factual Technology

All software doing motion planning now is developed by people other than Brooks.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

Reasoning

Universal claim about all motion-planning software is too sweeping to test.

Cite this claim

Rodney Brooks, “All software doing motion planning now is developed by people other than Brooks.” (said 16 December 2014). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_16a3cd9ac297, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_16a3cd9ac297

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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