Quotes About Robots

'Transformers: The Last Knight' is a different kind of movie.

I was a big Transformers fan.

I grew up watching Transformers. I think it was one of the first cartoons that I started watching as a kid. It was awesome. I would set my clock every morning before I went to school. It was a big part of my childhood.

I don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.

Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now.

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

The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty." Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You do not cut the dosage down. You kick it if you can; you stop the dose entirely. But the convulsions that follow may wreck the body entirely.

All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago.

Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.

New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat robots, and laser weapons.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once declared, "I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

THE UNCANNY VALLEY

Acaso los robots heredarán la Tierra? Sí, pero serán nuestros hijos. MARVIN MINSKY

are skilled in the techniques necessary to neutralize any rogue robot.

Mediante las señales que emiten sus cerebros, los trabajadores entran en contacto telepático con los robots. Desde sus cápsulas pueden ver y sentir todo lo que los robots ven y sienten. Es como estar allí en persona, pero con un nuevo cuerpo sobrehumano.

If each of them creates another thousand robots, then we have a million. Then a billion. Then a trillion. In just a few generations, we can have an expanding sphere containing quadrillions of these devices, which scientists call von Neumann machines.

There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.

growth is on the way, argue technology optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: thanks to the exponential growth in digital processing power, we are entering the 'second machine age' in which the fast-rising productivity of robots will drive a new wave of GDP growth.

tax employees, and you'll head for a jobless economy, as many countries are discovering today. It is happening in part thanks to the twentieth century's legacy of perverse tax policies, which charge firms for hiring humans (through payroll taxes), subsidise them for buying robots (through tax-deductible capital investments), and levy next to nothing on the use of land and non-renewable resources.

Another factor that's likely to exacerbate inequality: next-generation automation. The technological revolution in the workplace has only just begun. A 2017 study published by the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis found that nearly every major American city will see half of its current jobs replaced by robots by 2035.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.