I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.
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.
As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.
When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
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.
Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.
Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.
The image of the robot is very important to us, it's very stimulating to people's imaginations.
The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.
Who knows if I would get to do 'Mr. Robot' if I was on 'Mr. Robinson?'
Like I said, I don't want to pretend that I am a robot. When you hear things it's natural to feel some kind of hurt.
Maybe at the end of the day, instead of a neighbor picking you up, a robot picks you up.
I Bust-A-Move! Old-school style too: like, I'll bust a Robot out in a second.
The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.
Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on a cold Jan. evening or, a few months from now, on your I, Pad.
You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.
I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.
I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.
If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it.
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
human, not the other way around.
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.
I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.
'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot.
You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot.
Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.
Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it, you start to turn into a robot and you want to jump off a bridge.
The first robot in Neom will be Neom itself.
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
I want my fans to be able to approach me in public and not think that I'm some robot who only exists online.
Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0.
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.'
My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.
When I first created the world of 'Mr. Robot,' I thought it would be a niche television series with a small, cult following.
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
It shouldn't be easier for a company to get a tax break on buying another robot than training their employees to gain new skills for the modern economy.
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.
I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together.
When I got the script for 'Mr. Robot,' I was auditioning for a bunch of stuff. I had an audition going for a movie at the time that I wanted to do.
There was a pizza delivery robot from 2008, where I built a Prius to deliver pizza from downtown SF to Treasure Island.
One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?
When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.
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