Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

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

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

I just write mechanical things.

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

I remember when I was a kid and I was interested in robots, there was really nothing out there but Erector Sets and Tinker Toys.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

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.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

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

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

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 purpose creates the machine.

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

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

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

A 'reptilian revolution' has the potential to reshape manufacturing. The 'snakebots' being developed at Carnegie Mellon University aren't just useful for surgical or search-and-rescue purposes. They could also usher in a new, more customized era of mass production.