Kool Keith 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.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

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

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.

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

Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

High Tech is not merely a technical matter.

I like new technology.

The 'snakebot', which is a type of mechanized, biologically inspired robot, itself has roots in Japanese laboratories of the 1970s. What the team at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon is doing today under professor Howie Choset is making the 'snakebots' stronger, smaller, and more maneuverable than ever.

We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.

There was a pizza delivery robot from 2008, where I built a Prius to deliver pizza from downtown SF to Treasure Island.

I won a robotics championship when I was 13.

I can rap, play ball, design T-shirts, all that.

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

I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.

Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.

As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.