Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn’t sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would. – Ira Glass
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
People say, like, ‘Are you a regular person?’ ‘Well, I’m not a robot, if that’s what you’re asking, I really am a person.’ – Abigail Breslin
I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers ‘yes’ because ‘yes’ is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I’ve been given as a person in this society. – Damien Rice
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. – Nikola Tesla
Personally, I’m not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats. – Daniel H. Wilson
There are things that I invented – the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he’s not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff – this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it. – Michael Bay
People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don’t make it, I’ll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it. – Mark Goddard
Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack? – George M. Church
I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot’s arms would move in sync with yours. – John Badham
Oh my gosh! I can’t tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I’m like, ‘Please take it off!’ You don’t even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot! – Leona Lewis
We didn’t use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. – Linda M. Godwin
Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected. – Kristanna Loken
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we’ll have room for specialists. But right now we don’t. – John L. Phillips
The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable – just like my dishwasher. – Sebastian Thrun
If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated. – Rodney Brooks
I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like ‘Evangelion’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell.’ – Rinko Kikuchi
One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it’s too cheap not to be autonomous. – Rodney Brooks
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle’s robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. – Sally Ride
