In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.