We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.

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

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.