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We have enough robots in this business.

Wally Dallenbach

Where everything is transparent, so you can see how stuff works. Robots or multimedia displays would show you how it works.

Marshall Brain

A major bottleneck is actually changing samples and aligning them in the X-ray beam. We don't need to do that manually any more now that we have sample-changing robots.

Lawrence Shapiro

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Harry Dean Stanton

But not with my robots.

David Gustafson

Each one would measure about 1.5cm by 3 cm. They were designed to be complete robots, with different kinds of actuators for gripping, cell manipulation, and so on. Each one would be wireless, with lots of electronics on board, and an infrared control system — rather like a TV remote, but two-way in this case. They would be able to cooperate together on a range of tasks.

Joerg Seyfried

The average Sumo Robot costs around $600 to build and that's what kept us from entering a lot more teams. But as time passes and we get additional money to buy extra components we will be able to build a few more robots for the competition.

Scott Harvey

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Brian Pearson

I'm going to leave it to the new generation, to the crash-it-up robots that dominate the game.

David Campese

We're developing robots that will cost $150-7,000. They are a smaller, but smarter approach to farming than current machinery.

Tony Grift

We are being touted as the best robots on the planet. These are highly ranked teams saying these things.

Ted Clark

Most kids should be familiar with building blocks, and this incorporates robots into the familiar. You get to play with building blocks with a robotic arm that you can control from a distance.

Jennifer Farrington

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Dmitry Oleynikov

Automated analysis is probably the better way to figure out what Web sites are hostile. Robots are just staggeringly more efficient at these tasks.

Ben Edelman

I've got these wonderful little movies of the robots doing the moves in the office with people answering phones in the background.

Garth Jennings

The vast majority of our customers have no need and no desire to be programming their robots. But there are a few people out there who really enjoy hacking things.

Helen Greiner

This is really a golden age of space exploration and discovery. But I can't go there with my field boots, so the next step is to send even smarter robots instead.

James Dohm

We've done some host robots that went around and served food. You could easily do that at a tailgating. You could let everybody just sit in their easy chairs and it could bring drinks and food around.

David Gustafson

Unlike (the NASA) robots, Beagle 2 won't be going sightseeing. It is intent on discovering where there is or was life on Mars. It is happy to trade measurements for mobility.

Colin Pillinger

The top two awards don't even go to the robots.

Chuck Gosdzinski

The motivation for this is that you can pack a much higher amount of energy in fuel than you can in even the most advanced lithium batteries. This translates to prosthetic limbs and autonomous robots which can perform much longer missions.

Ray Baughman

I think we got a lot of good robots this year that are functional robots.

Tom Saxton

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

Claude Shannon

We're aiming to examine the whole idea of these robots.

Matthew Graham

The big thing that the robots bring to the table is that they allow us to gather information without danger to the lives of the rescuers.

Mark Micire

I am really excited! As the robots begin to take on their definite designs and we start building, I think lots of people are getting really pumped.

Kristina Haller

It's nice to have money in the bank. But it is also nice to have things on shelves, be it robots or dolls.

Hugo Marsh

You got robots doing it?it's unfair. They shouldn't even be in the running.

Joe Nunez

KUKA Robotics' robot product line gives us world class performance and reliability at an excellent value. We believe the KUKA robots will be key to delivering that performance and reliability to our welding cells.

David George

The engineering design competition has grown tremendously in the last few years with the increased interest in robotics. The engineering aspect is a discipline that has reached down to the junior high level within the last few years. We've added a junior high level because the kids are sophisticated enough to build their own robots.

Jaymie Pedigo

I have the right to object. We are more than pill counters or robots. We have religious and professional beliefs.

Cristina Gonzalez

Everything around the gallery was destroyed. But Antonio's robots right inside the door were fine. It was like Passover.

Bill Ross

Robots could offer them an effective way to raise quality and reduce cost in front of intense competition.

Fred Kindle

Those people should put all their millions of dollars together and make a factory that builds athlete-robots. Athletes are human beings. We have feelings, too. How can you ask someone to live in the world, to exist in the world, and not have something to say about injustice?

John Carlos

The Austrians are so by-the-book. They're almost like robots.

Daron Rahlves

Autonomous robots alone will be unable to realize those scientific goals in the foreseeable future.

Frank Close

It really is an exhibit about robots that's hosted by the characters from the movie. This is intended to be an introduction to robots for young children, and we hope by partnering with it [that it] will pique their interest.

Jennifer Farrington

I think it is just a fascinating time. We are seeing the planets for the first time. Whether we are exploring through humans or by robots.

Rich Zurek