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

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

Its going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

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

I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.