It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.
What people who are doing shift work or managing shift workers or deciding to put people on shift schedules to begin with should realize that we're not robots.
My son's got the I.Q. Of a robot but I don't have the dough to send him to school.
I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
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.
Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.
I love 'Robot Chicken,' 'The Boondocks' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' Then there's this show called 'The First 48.' It's a documentary about killings where they try and find murderers. They interrogate people and they tell on each other - it'...
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.
A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.
If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it.
