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

~David Hanson

Topics: Age Arrival Conversational Golden Golden Age Invention Our Our World Robots Seeing Walk World

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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.

~David Hanson

Topics: Beings Capable Conscious Creative Discerning Free Free Will Fully Human Human Beings May Maybe Really Robots Self Smart Someday Up Wake Wake Up Will

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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.

~David Hanson

Topics: Achieve Actually Character Could Empathy Future Greater Hope Human Intelligence Level Levels Our Plant Possibly Quite Robotics Robots Seed Seeds Than

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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 spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

~David Hanson

Topics: Actually Becoming Being Billions Billions Of Dollars Capable Character Could Dollars Empathy Like Machines Place Plant Robotics Robots Seed Spent Things Those

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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.

~David Hanson

Topics: Actually Applying Aware Been Could Created Free Free Will Geniuses Idea Invented Inventive Just Kid Machines Motivated Other People Potentially Redesign Reinvent Since Themselves Things Way Were Will Would

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

~David Hanson

Topics: Bound Form Human Identity Perception Up

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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.

~David Hanson

Topics: Also Build Character Characters Come David Develop Dr Empathize Eventually Mean Robots Will You

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

~David Hanson

Topics: Always Fiction Kid Loved Science Science Fiction Things

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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.

~David Hanson

Topics: Accuracy Achieve Also Beings Bottom Compassion Eventually Feel Going High Human Human Beings Imitating Machines Make Need Perhaps Raise Safe Them Top Values

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Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

~David Hanson

Topics: Heads Mine Most Motors Robotic

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Inventor

Born: Unknown

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