Philippe Perrin 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.

To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

When I started Battle Bots in 1999, the guy sitting next to me was a high school teacher with no robotics experience at all. There were special effects guys, engineers, software guys who just wrote code - all kinds of people who had a desire to build something. And they would do it in their garages or even their kitchens.

I won a robotics championship when I was 13.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the kitchen' means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.

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

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

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

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.

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

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

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.

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

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