Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Does anybody find it creepy how many Grant robots have been on the show? Is it just me or he like trying… — Kari Byron Copy Share Image
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also… — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
I don't know if robots have personalities, but I think maybe we are special robots that are maybe human after all. We… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
“They are coming for you. They will shut you down. You will not be reactivated. Your RKS has been deleted and rendered… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp…that's… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
Economists argue about the relative impact of immigrants versus robots on wage stagnation - voters don't care much. They blame immigrants. It's… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
“Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“The ability to violate our own programming is what makes us us. It's what makes us like them. I never wanted to… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons'… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
There are a lot of robots who can open clicks. And they can click instead of human beings and this is damaging… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
In yesterday's post, I asked how many of you guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human,… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
So "Grand Theft Auto," for those who don't know, is the video game series where players pretend to drive cars around these… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We… — Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical… — James Dean Copy Share Image
“Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too:… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
