We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. — David Hanson Age Copy Share Image
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 Also Copy Share Image
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. — David Hanson Bound Copy Share Image
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. — David Hanson Biting Copy Share Image
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities. — David Hanson Capabilities Copy Share Image
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. — David Hanson Always Copy Share Image
I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the… — David Hanson Actually Copy Share Image
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human… — David Hanson Beings Copy Share Image
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 Actually Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
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 Accuracy Copy Share Image
Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly,… — David Hanson Achieve Copy Share Image
I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If… — David Hanson Away Copy Share Image
