- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robots Quotes
What builders and thinkers say about machines.
These robots quotes lean technical and forward-looking, describing how machines handle structured tasks best and how palm-sized quadrotor robots can flip completely in midair within half a second, pushing Automation further than expected.
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- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.
- Machines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020