Occupation: Roboticist Birth: December 30, 1954
Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers there, the biggest problems in ….
My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now..
I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet ….
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..
When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else..
When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere..
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout his….
So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Ou….
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work..
I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certa….
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? A….
I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal..
I always tell people, it's never too late to start saving for retirement. It's not that important how much you have already saved. What's important i….
If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered befor….
Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat.