History Quote by John Podhoretz

Robots are good at things that are structured.

— Vijay Kumar

When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.

— Drew Goddard

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

— John Podhoretz

“Ever since the robot was first invented, there have been people who swear up and down that this marks the first step towards the…

— Weston Locher

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because…

— Peter Singer

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

— Daniel H. Wilson

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it…

— Shawn Levy

Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost…

— Terence Winter

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

— Colin Angle

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should…

— Mark Boal

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics -…

— Daniel H. Wilson

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

— Rodney Brooks