Robotics Quotes · Page 10

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

— Cynthia Breazeal

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

— Isaac Asimov

“I find it difficult to converse with robots…Don't be afraid to be an independent thinker.”

— Just Jewel

The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently.

— Karl Iagnemma

“Robots would save the elderly from the woes of the ageing flesh.”

— Margaret Drabble

“Stop, people! Don't make me hurt you! What chance have you against one who can smash robots?”

— Russ Manning

You can't control babies, they aren't robots and we don't have them all figured out.

— Whitney Port

Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause.

— Hank Green

“Paradox of Automation: the more efficient the Automated system, the more crucial the contribution of the human operators of that system.”

— Josh Kaufman

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

— John Podhoretz

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but…

— Zach Woods

I didn't think he was a robot...but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with…

— James Patterson

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain…

— Cynthia Breazeal

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be…

— Steven Pinker

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human…

— David Hanson

There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may…

— Peter Singer

A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the…

— Mike Pesca

I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,…

— Michael Light

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but…

— Colin Angle

“I stepped through the doors of the SA Café with a borrowed copy of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot in my hand, expecting…

— Hal Duncan

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job.…

— Anonymous

We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines.…

— Kevin Kelly

The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its…

— Colin Angle

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

— Michael Ovitz

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

— J. J. Abrams

“There are many joys of parenting, but ultimately we are robots training our own upgrades to replace us.”

— John Hodgman

I don't agree with any form of butler, so definitely not a robot one. It's lazy, so a bad idea.

— Kano

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother,

— P. W. Singer

In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation.

— Paul Allen

Of course, the idea that a robot can have a sexual identity is kind of an absurd one.

— Randy Pitchford

I'm not a robot. But the way I communicate means I polarise people.

— Joey Barton

I think as automation gets even more and more prevalent, we're going to need to learn how to code. Everybody does.

— Reshma Saujani

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

— Alan Tudyk

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

— Jamie Hyneman

I think people are really more excited to see the robots than they would be to see ourselves.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.

— Masayoshi Son

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has…

— Rodney Carrington

Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now.

— John Vanderslice