I don’t know a single roboticist who’s trying to replace people, it’s all about extending what people can do. Cynthia Breazeal More Quotes by Cynthia Breazeal More Quotes From Cynthia Breazeal I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind. Cynthia Breazeal robots people thinking Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people. Cynthia Breazeal robots humans people I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me. Cynthia Breazeal cowboy technology government My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots. Cynthia Breazeal stars memorable war Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing. Cynthia Breazeal kids-love robots kids In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control. Cynthia Breazeal western-culture creating thinking If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots. Cynthia Breazeal look you robots today We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people. Cynthia Breazeal good love character science Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them. Cynthia Breazeal great think you people
