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Hod Lipson

(1966) Roboticist United States

16 quotes in 184 categories

Hod Lipson is a roboticist from the United States, best known for Driverless.

Quick Facts About Hod Lipson

Born: November 30, 1966
Nationality: United States
Profession: Roboticist
Notable works: Driverless

About Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson is an American-Israeli robotics engineer. He is the director of Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab. Lipson's work focuses on evolutionary robotics, digital manufacturing, artificial life, and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity and Self Awareness. His publications have been cited more than 56,000 times, and he has an h-index of 94, as of 17 October 2025. Lipson is interviewed in the 2018 documentary on artificial intelligence Do You Trust This Computer?

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Hod Lipson

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything…

Any

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We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated,…

Complicated

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Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

Anybody

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The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone…

Away

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3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

Age-old

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When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight,…

Advanced

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We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess…

Beats

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If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100…

Alive

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The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits,…

Batteries

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The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

Around

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I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth…

Become

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Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

Materials

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Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's…

About

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Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by…

Computer

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A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese,

Cheese

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If you gave kids peas that didn’t look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they’re much more apt to…

Kids

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