Erik Brynjolfsson

Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.

American Educator

Sebastian Thrun

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

German Scientist

Graham McTavish

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

Scottish Actor

James Arthur

I've done a few face palms after things I've said because it's stupid. But if I'm not like that, I won't feel human anymore. I'll just feel like some robot saying what I'm supposed to say. I think that's when people lose it.

British Musician

Simone Giertz

To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.

Swedish Inventor

Poppy

The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.

American Musician

Karel Capek

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Czechoslovakian Writer

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

It's funny, we appear as robots from another world, but what we do, what the robots create, is really human after all.

Laurel Hubbard

Like I said, I don't want to pretend that I am a robot. When you hear things it's natural to feel some kind of hurt.

Grant Imahara

MythBusters' sounded like such an incredible opportunity. Where else might I be paid to make robots blow things up?

American Celebrity

Robots are tangible machines often associated with practical tasks.

Physical Presence

Some robots operate autonomously, while others require human input.

Autonomy Levels

Robots are central to many science fiction stories, often reflecting human-like traits.

Cultural Impact

The term can describe human behavior mechanically following orders or routines.

Metaphorical Use

Being called a robot often suggests a lack of creativity or free will.

Negative Connotation

Suggests a person may not show emotion, resembling a robot's expected behavior.

Emotional Expression

Robots in computing often handle monotonous tasks quickly and efficiently.

Repetitive Tasks

These robots are software programs, not physical machines.

Digital World

Internet robots may interact with humans, sometimes without revealing they're not human.

Online Interaction

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