Robotics Quotes · Page 8

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

— Kenneth Goldsmith

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

— Jamie Hyneman

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

— Alan Tudyk

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

— Reshma Saujani

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

— Joey Barton

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

— Randy Pitchford

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

— Paul Allen

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

— P. W. Singer

All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not…

— Rodney Brooks

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables…

— Michio Kaku

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than…

— Robert Winston

We're not performers, we're not models - it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features, but the robots are…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability.…

— Max Frisch

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell…

— John Green

“In tomorrow’s workplace, either the human is telling the robot what to do or the robot is telling the human what to…

— Alec J. Ross

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under…

— E. O. Wilson

We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still…

— Ken Jennings

“Ever since the robot was first invented, there have been people who swear up and down that this marks the first step…

— Weston Locher

Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human,…

— Steven Berkoff

Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We…

— Sherry Turkle

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible…

— Ansel Adams

“A widely quoted study from the Oxford Martin School predicts that technology threatens to replace 47 percent of all US jobs within…

— Anonymous

The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has…

— Anonymous

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

— Kano

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

— John Hodgman

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

— J. J. Abrams

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

— Michael Ovitz

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

— Hank Green

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

— Whitney Port

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

— Russ Manning

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

— Margaret Drabble

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

— Karl Iagnemma

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

— Just Jewel

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

— Isaac Asimov

Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control.

— Oren Etzioni

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

— Cynthia Breazeal

I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.

— Trevor Paglen

Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

— Michio Kaku

“What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?”

— Humberto Contreras