Robotics Quotes - Page 2

• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Space, Arms, Labs

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• Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

  J. B. Smoove

  Men, Six, Seven

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• Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Future, Moon, Space

  FaceBook post by Buzz Aldrin from Nov 22, 2009

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• Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.

  Ben Zimmer

  Real, Trying, Emotion

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

  Hod Lipson

  Profound, Effort, Way

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• I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.

  Jason Silva

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Feelings, Robots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.

  Mary Norris

  Taken, Light, Race

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• We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

  Ken Jennings

  Regret, Patriotic, Robots

  "Jennings in 'Jeopardy' with fans after Web post". www.today.com. July 26, 2006.

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• When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal was to broaden participation in lunar exploration, and connect the common person to its results. We plan to send robotic rovers - not humans - to the Moon to search for precious metals and rare minerals on the Moon's surface.

  Naveen Jain

  Dream, Moon, Reality

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• While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Sports, Team, Book

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• In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.

  James Van Allen

  Motivation, Adventure, Commitment

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• I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a military photographer, or Mike Light really doesn't matter. What matters is the context of the final photograph and the meaning it generates within that context.

  Michael Light

  Military, What Matters, Light

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Reality, Media

  "Technology's gutterball - new gear makes bowling too easy" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. October 20, 2008.

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• Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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• I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Gymnastics, Acrobatics, Popping

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• Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Light, Self

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

  Michael J. Massimino

  School, Space, Working Together

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• In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere science fiction. It's cold, hard, metallic reality.

  Peter Singer

  War, Reality, Issues

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

  Marc Garneau

  Hands, Three, Arms

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• I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Hands, Arms, Persons

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• The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

  M.I.A.

  Wall, Artist, Robots

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

  Rodney Carrington

  Essence, Voice, Mind

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• People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

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• I'm fascinated by the new iPhone. I bought it and kept trying to use it in France. "Siri, what is a good restaurant?" (In a robotic voice.) "I'm sorry, Robin. I can't give locations in France." "Why, Siri?" "I don't know." It's like she was upset with the French or something. "They seem to have an attitude I can't understand. Should I look for Germans, Robin?"

  Robin Williams

  Sorry, Attitude, Iphone

  Source: www.today.com

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