Colin Angle Quotes

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

The purpose creates the machine.

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.

The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.

The 'snakebot', which is a type of mechanized, biologically inspired robot, itself has roots in Japanese laboratories of the 1970s. What the team at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon is doing today under professor Howie Choset is making the 'snakebots' stronger, smaller, and more maneuverable than ever.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.