David Hanson

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

— David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

— David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

— David Hanson

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

— David Hanson

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

— David Hanson

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

— David Hanson

I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters,…

— David Hanson

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

— David Hanson

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the…

— David Hanson

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem…

— David Hanson

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent…

— David Hanson

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If…

— David Hanson

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values,…

— David Hanson

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly,…

— David Hanson