People are fascinated by robots because they're machines…

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

— Ken Goldberg

Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

— Neil Harbisson

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

— Grant Imahara

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look…

— Colin Angle

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics…

— Colin Angle

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a…

— Colin Angle

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said,…

— Colin Angle

If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my…

— Colin Angle

Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea…

— Colin Angle

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special…

— Colin Angle

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is…

— Colin Angle

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

— Colin Angle

I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

— Colin Angle

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.

— Colin Angle