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Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being... →
Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly... →
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
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... →
Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can... →
Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.
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... →
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... →
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
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... →
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
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