Philippe Perrin Quotes

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

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

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.'

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

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

A man-like object

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

I set out to make a sandwich using a robot arm. I put a knife at the end of it and tried to make it spread peanut butter over bread. It didn't work so great.

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

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

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

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.