ClaimsRodney Brooks

“"Robots will become cheaper and more adaptive to their surroundings. No one will find it surprising they can train a robot to do a new task for them in just a few minutes," added Brooks.”

Rodney Brooks, CEO of Rethink Robotics 18 September 2012 Part 1: Future Of Robotics: Manufacturing Gets A Makeover With Baxter (Forbes) archived copy

Prediction Technology

Robots will become cheaper and more adaptive to their surroundings, and people will find it unsurprising to train a robot for a new task in a few minutes.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Vague prediction with no horizon (cheaper, adaptive, 'unsurprising') that can't be tested cleanly.

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Rodney Brooks, “Robots will become cheaper and more adaptive to their surroundings, and people will find it unsurprising to train a robot for a new task in a few minutes.” (said 18 September 2012). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_f55ab7dd3b8d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f55ab7dd3b8d

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

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