Brooks initial papers like "Intelligence without representation", "Elephants don't place Chess" and robots like Ghengis and Attila changed the robotics landscap

Brooks initial papers like "Intelligence without representation", "Elephants don't place Chess" and robots like Ghengis and Attila changed the robotics landscape. It was a leap akin to going from a Mainframes to an Apple II. Brooks was extraordinarily well placed to lead this switch in Robotics. He was at MIT, a place with very talented engineers - mechanical, electrical - etc. who could work on the robots. MIT also had limitless funding and a culture for disruptive research with long payoffs. This might not have been possible at other places like CMU where robotics has more industrial applications. I remember watching the movies of Atilla and Genghis over and over again, downloaded over an FTP connection! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6piNZBFdfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6piNZBFdfY