Grant Imahara Quotes

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

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

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

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

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

I'm not a robot - I don't do the robot stuff, yeah.

I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.

I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you're looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.

AI is everywhere. It's not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.

I'm not Borg Two, I'm Wilander One.

I became interested in AI in high school because I read 'Goedel, Escher, Bach,' a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how all their work in some ways fit together, and he talked about artificial intelligence. I thought 'Wow, this is what I want to be doing.'

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.

One day robots may even babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

The day of the android has dawned.

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.