Andrew Stanton Quotes

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

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

I guess you could blame it on being raised by comics and television, but I've always loved robots in any shape or size.

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me.

I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

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

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.

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.

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.

I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

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.

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.