David Hanson Quotes

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway.

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.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

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

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.

I know we've had AI films, but they've been quite specific in their scope. The scope of 'Humans' is a world set up where this technology is universally accepted. I haven't seen anything that's dealt with it in that multi-layered, every-layer-of-society way.

I hope people can envision a future where we as humans have robots that are alongside us, assisting in our daily lives.

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

The image of the robot is very important to us, it's very stimulating to people's imaginations.

I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.

As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

Ultimately, our ideas about robots are not about robots. The robot is a canvas onto which we project our hopes and our dreams and our fears... they become embodiments of those hopes and dreams and fears.

What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that are central to the concept of our series as a whole. But the major lens that we will have is going to be the real world.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

Robots allow our employees to work safely, faster, and at less cost.

The longer you experience a scene, you tend to accept what's going on.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.

I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on Robotics and AI, and we spend a fair amount of our time together as a group discussing ethics, best practices, and the like.