Gregory Maguire

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

American Novelist

Colin Angle

If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.

American Businessman

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Nolan Bushnell

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

Dr. John

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

American Musician

David S. Goyer

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.

American Director

Use 'humanoid' to describe something that looks or acts like a human but isn't one.

Similarity to Humans

'Humanoid' often refers to robots designed to mimic human form and behavior.

Robotic Context

In sci-fi, 'humanoid' can describe aliens with human-like features.

Science Fiction Use

As a noun, 'humanoid' emphasizes characteristics or features, not just appearance.

Characteristics Emphasis

'Humanoid' can imply artificial intelligence, especially in computing contexts.

Artificial Intelligence

Humanoids might be designed to evoke empathy or relatability from human observers.

Emotional Connection

 Right. You know, so from a sensors and actuators standpoint, it's certainly been demonstrated by many that it's possible to make a humanoid robot. The things that are currently missing are enough intelligence for the robot to navigate the real world and do useful things without being explicitly instructed.

Elon Musk: A future...

 and then we'll see rapid growth year over year of the usefulness of the humanoid robots um and decrease in cost and scaling out production help me on the economics of this so what what do you picture the cost of one of these being well i think the cost is actually not going to be uh crazy high

Elon Musk talks Twitter,...

 You believe that you were born on a particular date, that you were born to two human parents and that each of your human parents was born on an earlier date. You believe that other human beings have thoughts and feelings like you do and that you are not surrounded by humanoid robots.

How do you know whom to...

 as it goes up the stairs. And believe me, getting it to do what it's supposed to do in those circumstances is a real challenge, but the result is something that's going to generalize and make robots much more autonomous than they would be otherwise. This is Atlas, a humanoid robot.

Meet Spot, the robot dog...

 The reason it's different is that, just in the past few years, our machines have started demonstrating skills they have never, ever had understanding, speaking, hearing, seeing, answering, writing, and they're still acquiring new skills. For example, mobile humanoid robots

What will future jobs...

 from competing against other AI this is a pair of humanoid robots that are trying to land a soccer goal and while the red AI has a pretty nice kick the blue AI is a step ahead and can cleanly block it and all of this is without any human instruction we never told the AI

What if AI learned more...

 we want to have full-size, autonomous humanoid robots play soccer against the human World Cup champions and win. It's a true, actual goal. It's a very ambitious goal, but we truly believe we can do it. This is last year in China.

Dennis Hong: My 7...

 Other humanoid life forms have come and gone. We find their traces. We search for their stories. But we are the success story. We've survived natural disasters, famines, floods, earthquakes, plagues,

Is Humanity Smart Enough...

 I think for a lot of people the word robot conjures up a humanoid robot. I think that's a little bit different. I try to disavow people of that, because human body--

The Future of Artificial...

 So when people voice fears of artificial intelligence, very often, they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok. You know? Terminator?