The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

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

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

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

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.