Grant Imahara Quotes

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

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.

Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels.

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 won a robotics championship when I was 13.

In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.

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.

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.

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

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

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

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.

I just write mechanical things.

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.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

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

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.