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Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

— Colin Angle

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

— John Podhoretz

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

— Colin Angle

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

— John Podhoretz

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.

— David Hanson

If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.

— Erwin McManus

We're going to become caretakers for the robots. That's what the next generation of work is going to be.

— Gray Scott

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

— Daniel H. Wilson

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

— Karel Capek

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.

— Jeff Lemire

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

— Ken Goldberg