Robotics Quotations

When you think of Seattle, you think of Starbucks or Microsoft. But when people think of Pittsburgh, would they say, 'Carnegie Mellon University,' the center of the universe for robotics right now? It's amazing what you find here and it's a story that needs to be told.

We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the kitchen' means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.

TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.

Tape automation is really going to be the main thing, in that you're going to see big libraries, the robotics in them to handle tapes, so we get the human element out as much as possible.

We are in real good shape to support putting off robotics until tomorrow. We could see that was coming.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.