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I actually oddly have done another robot motion capture. I did Sonny in I, Robot. -- Alan Tudyk
On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love. -- Seth Green
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. -- Cory Doctorow
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. -- David Hanson
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Rodney Brooks
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics] -- Isaac Asimov
Our 2015 financial performance will continue to be driven by our Home Robot business. Home Robot revenue is expected to grow 10% to 12% in 2015 and comprise 90% of total company revenue. -- Colin Angle
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. -- Mark Goddard
Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba. -- Juan Enriquez
What did everyone think robot vacuuming was going to be? Well, they think Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons,' a human robot that pushed a vacuum. That was never going to happen. -- Colin Angle
Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport. -- Paolo Di Canio
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot? -- Katherine Losse
I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid. -- Ice Cube
I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh. -- Mark Goddard
People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it. -- Mark Goddard
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's hilarious. -- ASAP Rocky
Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags. -- Martin Rees
I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed. -- Serena Williams
Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot. -- Hulk Hogan
I would love to have a robot at home. -- Hugh Jackman
I'm such a robot when it comes to work. -- Jessica White
I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot. -- Justin Bieber
Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect. -- Johnny Weir
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. -- Nikola Tesla
Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot. -- Jimmy Fallon
What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done. -- Stanley Bing
We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. -- Marvin Minsky
I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen. -- Megan Fox
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so. -- Rob Sheffield
With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO. -- Peter Singer
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep. -- Daniel H. Wilson
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts. -- Michio Kaku
The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature. -- Thomas Bangalter
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. -- Daniel H. Wilson
When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything's pink. She makes a certain move that's ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I'm evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She's fearless, and I love her. -- Laurieann Gibson
Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler. -- Colin Angle
When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores. -- Ben Shapiro
I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society. -- Damien Rice
Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day - more than a worker in India, a robot or a computer? Can he or she help my company adapt by not only doing the job today but also reinventing the job for tomorrow? -- Thomas Friedman
I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It's not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, 'Man, we don't make movies like this anymore.' -- Evangeline Lilly
I would love a robot butler. -- Brett Ratner
Man is a robot with defects. -- Emile M. Cioran
i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT. -- Thom Yorke
I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm! -- Invader
Building robot versions of people is very expensive. -- Colin Angle
Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops, -- Curtis Granderson
Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot -- Joe Rogan
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot -- Bruce Lee
I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another. -- Tucker Max
It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning. -- David Haye
I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat. -- David Rees
I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one. -- Tom Felton
They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot. -- Eminem
I'm not a robot - I don't do the robot stuff, yeah. -- Hillary Clinton
Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot. -- Jimmy Carr
Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody. -- Douglas Adams
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot. -- Joe Strummer
If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric. -- Kat Dennings
What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human. -- Alan Tudyk
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. -- Isaac Asimov
Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex -- Kool Keith
When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother, -- P. W. Singer
The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology. -- Colin Angle
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. -- Chris Evert
I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot. -- Bernie Mac
Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes. -- John Green
I have a secret weapon. And it could have something to do with special robot knowledge. -- Grant Imahara
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. -- Timothy Leary
Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun. -- David Nicholls
You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush. -- Daniel H. Wilson
As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine. -- Sigourney Weaver
When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. -- Barry Long
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. -- Sally Ride
Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot. -- Nat Wolff
No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning. -- Nancy Pearcey
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. -- Isaac Asimov
I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life. -- Evan Rachel Wood
A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. -- Shawn Lukas
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. -- Robert Anton Wilson
When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script. -- Jake Schreier
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents. -- Sara Zarr
I'm too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine. -- David Haye
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. -- Linda M. Godwin
People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not. -- Serena Williams
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. -- Isaac Asimov
We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships. -- Shawn Anthony Levy
Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot. -- Vijay Kumar
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere. -- Norman Foster
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. -- John Galt
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. -- Spider Robinson
That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments. -- Colin Angle
Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0. -- Jimmy Fallon
Someone once told me that the 'â?¦Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster. -- Britney Spears
People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person. -- Abigail Breslin
One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before? -- Judy Woodruff
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. -- Colin Angle
Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. -- Chuck Klosterman
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me. -- Vijay Kumar
I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me. -- Jeff Gordon
People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.' -- Abigail Breslin
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. -- Cary Fukunaga
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind. -- Barry Long
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The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. -- Adam Smith
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves. -- Alfred Bester
If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated. -- Rodney Brooks
We are survival machines "? robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. -- Richard Dawkins
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together. -- Michael J. Massimino
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person. -- Isaac Asimov
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. -- Buzz Aldrin
My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion. -- Moby
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself. -- Bill Joy
You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious. -- Daniel H. Wilson

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