Colin Angle Quotes

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.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

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

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

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

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

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

I used to watch 'The Jetsons' growing up. I used to think that this woman, Rosie, the robot housekeeper, was going to exist. I think we're far away from that happening.

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

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

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!

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.