David Hanson Quotations

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

We are here to communicate with the board members, who we don't think are listening to us. My personal opinion is this is a power play.

The people of Northern Ireland and people throughout the United Kingdom want to celebrate George's life in a positive way. He has been one of the greatest footballers that ever lived.

It is clear that George's life has meant a lot to a lot of people in Northern Ireland,

The 2012 Games will act as a catalyst for the development of sport in every region and, in the run-up to this event, the Government is committed to getting young people involved in sport from an early age.

We have two weeks for it to get cold. In the past we've gone through Saturday night until 4 a.m. making snow and carrying it up the hill. We don't give up.

We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.

was losing altitude, trying to maintain altitude and trim, trying to find a place to land. I didn't want to land on the freeway. I would have endangered so many people.

There is just too much at stake for us not to have it.

Direct rule is not the right way for Northern Ireland to be governed. Devolution is. We want to -- and we will -- hand back to politicians as soon as we can.

It's too expensive to hire the wrong person. Anything we can do to help us build the right team is worth it.

I remember scootching down in the cockpit. I was level with the ground. (The plane) did a lot of things. I don't know a lot,