102 Robots Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone? Ben Peek

Environmental Myself Food You People Hide Gone Herd Alive Hidden Could Sacrificing Like Know Alright Robots Middle Where Gonna Apocalypse If I Could Avoid Keep Zombies

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals. Bill Budge

You Goals Will Robot Programs Follow Able Give Write Also Track Robots Hand Little Manipulate Ground Program

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically. Buzz Aldrin

Moon First Build Back Astronauts Would Would-Be Mars More Advancing Know Welcomed Return Without Robots Got How Years Than Send After Chinese To The Moon Landing Should International Base Humans

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun. Christian Bale

You About Robots How Want Movie Cool Fun Serious

Rather than wringing our hands about robots taking over the world, smart organizations will embrace strategic automation use cases. Strategic decisions will be based on how the technology will free up time to do the types of tasks that humans are uniquely positioned to perform. Clara Shih

Time Technology World Smart Will Free Automation Types Our Embrace About Cases Rather Taking Perform Over Robots How Up Than Hands Tasks Decisions Use Organizations Strategic Uniquely Based Humans

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose. Colin Angle

Needs You People Just Be Correctly Out Would Would-Be See Having Only Purpose Cleaner Never Ideal Come Robots Cupboard Just Gadget Them Fulfil Product Your Full Cool Floor Specific Vacuum Need Imagine

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 more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot. Colin Angle

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

Ourselves Idea Likes Terrible Robots Which Hollywood Mechanical Copies Imagine

Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing. Cynthia Breazeal

Love Kids Robots Fanciful Cool Cool Thing Thing

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people. Cynthia Breazeal

Love Good Character You Science People Seen He True Look Science Fiction Robots Boy Always Fallen West Lot Suspicion Fiction Japan Help Help People Fundamentally

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control. Cynthia Breazeal

You Science Culture Conflict Fear Alien Control Think Out See Some Something More Science Fiction Robots Hubris Lot Western Western Culture Goes Suspicious Being Fiction Form Whether Creating Need

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them. Cynthia Breazeal

Great You Natural People Design Think Our Way Evolution Would Would-Be Through Operate Read Robots Very Interact Interaction Order Social Them Really Social Interaction Specialized Interpersonal

Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. Daniel H. Wilson

Future First Looking Robot Cute Carnegie Future Generations Ability Facilitate Generations Learn First Place Robots Demonstration Yellow Gestures Autistic Autistic Children May Children Interactions Place Happily Social Skills Teaches Shown Washington Social Skills University

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds. Daniel H. Wilson

You Technology People Real Estate Degree Minds Take Study Also Because Robotics Robots Real Exist Up Get Estate Interesting Really

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology. Daniel H. Wilson

Love Relationship Technology Hate World Changing Our Our World Embody Advance New Robots How Love-Hate Love-Hate Relationship Really Each Fast Humans

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me. Daniel H. Wilson

Me Become Monster Monsters Our Way Our Lives Those Frankenstein Vampires Pretty Only Stuff Make-Believe Robots Real Meaningful Meaningful Way Really Fascinating Popular Lives Zombies

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about. Daniel H. Wilson

Home People Space Building Think Sets Kids Dreaming About Involved Biased Because Robots Real Rocket Yes Get Where Lego Transformers Who Now Right Raised Imagine

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots. Daniel H. Wilson

Time Culture People Changes States Killer Varies Over Reactions Terrified Robots Human Want Japan United United States

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will. David Hanson

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away. David Hanson

People Will Become Go Away More Robots Go Effect Get Experiments Commonplace Then Used Less Found Away Startling

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics. David Hanson

Robots Quotes

No more robots quotes