Robots Quotes

Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.

~ Vijay Kumar

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.

~ Michio Kaku

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

~ Michio Kaku

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

~ Claude Shannon

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

~ John Podhoretz

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.

~ Peter Singer

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

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

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

~ Peter Singer

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

~ Masayoshi Son

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

~ Joyce Meyer

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

~ Nolan Bushnell

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

~ Harry Dean Stanton