Colin Angle Quotes

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

There are no movie references that I can think of in 'Robopocalypse.' However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics.

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.

The best machinery in the world has to be handled by intelligent people.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

We live in a world where all the parts of a robot are very cheap, yet we don't have a lot of robots. And the thing that has been missing has been good enough Artifical Intelligence.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.