Robots Quotations

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.

At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said, 'Darcy, what are you doing?' She said: 'Don't worry, Daddy, the robot will get it.' I didn't know whether to be horrified or proud. It was this idea that homes take care of themselves and robots are part of that.

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

I would love to have a robot at home.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

One of the things we'll see in the future will be that robots will not be those creatures of science fiction but will actually be part of our human world. If you think about it today, you can send your father-in- law a message saying 'don't forget to take your pill' ... But what about being able to send a message or just being able to think about it and having a robot pick up the glass of water and take it over to his bed and hand it to him along with the pills?

Men's and women's choices were quite different, but it's clear we all want a mom who's strong and supportive. Men, however, want mom to be prepared for anything. Even mercenary robots from the future.

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

So far, using autonomous robots to make soil measurements is somewhat futuristic. In general, robotics for scouting still has many limitations, including providing them with enough power to operate efficiently for long periods. However, hypothetically, you could mount one of these recently developed sensors onto a robot and if smart enough, the robot could even decide by itself how far away to make the next measurement based on geo-statistical field data.

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.

China plans to make breakthroughs in extreme manufacturing (and) robots capable of doing intelligent services. China will focus its energy research on the economical, efficient and clean use of energy and the exploration of new energy resources.

My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.

Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.'

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

KUKA Robotics' robot product line gives us world class performance and reliability at an excellent value. We believe the KUKA robots will be key to delivering that performance and reliability to our welding cells.

KUKA Robotics' stainless steel robots have been working in many applications & industries in Europe and we are pleased to be able to offer our North American customers this option as well. Food manufacturing in particular requires extremely stringent sterility standards and stainless steel is the optimum material to meet these requirements.

Robots could offer them an effective way to raise quality and reduce cost in front of intense competition.

Robots don't perform the surgeries, but they are tools that give the surgeon more dexterity.

Our family of tiny-wheeled robots has the potential to revolutionize the minimally invasive surgery field. It will replace standard surgery and at some point the surgeon's hands won't need to be in the body at all.

I think we got a lot of good robots this year that are functional robots.

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

Most kids should be familiar with building blocks, and this incorporates robots into the familiar. You get to play with building blocks with a robotic arm that you can control from a distance.

We are being touted as the best robots on the planet. These are highly ranked teams saying these things.

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

I would love a robot butler.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say "busted" or "confirmed" or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we're simply enjoying ourselves.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

where everything is transparent, so you can see how stuff works. Robots or multimedia displays would show you how it works.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.

Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people.

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops,

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.

We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

Conventional surgical robots are the equivalent of a sophisticated racecar compared to your basic family sedan. For some surgeries, you need a complex robot, but for many surgeries you do not. You wouldn't take an Indy racecar to the grocery store.