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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020