Stanley Bing Quotes

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

I'm fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway.

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Stop relying only on technology. Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

Companies are doing a good job at producing stuff. They are just doing it without people.

The best machinery in the world has to be handled by intelligent people.

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.