Building Quote by Colin Angle

The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention…

— Rodney Brooks

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing…

— Colin Angle

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs…

— Colin Angle

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a…

— Colin Angle

The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that…

— Colin Angle

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

— Colin Angle

It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a…

— Colin Angle

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said,…

— Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look…

— Colin Angle

So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot…

— Philip K. Dick

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as…

— Marvin Minsky

It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.

— David Haye