Randy Pitchford Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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.

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

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

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

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.

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

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

A man-like object

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

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

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

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

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.

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