Quotes About Robots

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

advanced technology is converting many industries into factories full of robots raises questions about work, leisure, and meaning for life. The proliferation of nuclear weapons creates a morbid fear of the destruction of the human race which undermines the moral and ethical foundations of our society.

As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.

Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women.

Electrical motors used in mobile robots are controlled by modifying the voltage applied to the motors using a technique called pulse width modulation. In many educational robots, control algorithms such as those described in Chap. 6, are used to ensure that the motors rotate at a specified target speed.

No president can force shuttered mills to reopen, or companies who've left in search of cheaper labor to relocate to the United States (or those who have come back to choose expensive humans over cheaper robots).

It was a late afternoon in the month of October—the "Column of the Year" as the robots called it, the month's thick almost substantive yellow light holding the rest of the year aloft above darkness lapping at its feet.

The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds.

There was no need to call the meeting to order. Robots are orderly by default.

The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

Zeroth Law...

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

We of Solaria alone learned how life was to be lived. We did not herd and flock like animals, as they did on Earth, as they did on other worlds, as they did even on the other Spacer worlds. We lived each alone, with robots to help us, viewing each other electronically as often as we wished, but coming within natural sight of one another only rarely.

And then, when human beings arrive, the robots can be restored to more robotic schemes of behavior.

Pero ya lo ve, no se pueden hacer diferencias entre un robot y el mejor de los humanos.

decimoctavo libro de la Ilíada de Homero, se indica que Hefesto, el dios griego, tiene como ayudante a «un par de sirvientas… hechas de oro exactamente como muchachas vivientes; tienen juicio en sus cabezas, pueden hablar y utilizan sus músculos, pueden girarse y moverse de izquierda a derecha así como hacer su trabajo…». Sin duda alguna, se trata de robots.

La creación de los robots fue considerada como el primer ejemplo de la arrogancia desmesurada de la Humanidad, de su intento de despojar al teólogo de su manto, por medio de la ciencia mal manejada. La creación de vida humana, con un alma, era prerrogativa única de Dios.

nadie utilizó la palabra «robot» hasta 1920 (casualmente el año en que yo nací). Aquel año, un dramaturgo checo, Karel Capek, escribió la obra R.U.R., sobre un inglés, Rossum, que fabricaba seres humanos artificiales en cantidad. Éstos estaban destinados a realizar las labores arduas de la Tierra, de forma que los seres humanos reales pudiesen vivir placentera y confortablemente sus vidas.

Celebro que los ingenieros no hayan inventado todavía el robot que pueda trabajar en la oscuridad total. Me horrorizaría encontrar siete robots en un pozo negro sin radiocomunicación, si no estuviesen iluminados como árboles de Navidad radiactivos.

Los robots eran máquinas y no metáforas.

apareció en el número de junio de 1950 de Astounding. Era la primera historia que escribía que trataba principalmente de computadoras (las llamé «Máquinas» en la historia) más que de robots en sí mismos.

Mucho poder lleva consigo mucha responsabilidad, y si los robots tienen tres leyes para proteger a los hombres, ¿es demasiado pedir que los hombres cuenten con una o dos leyes para proteger a los robots?