Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.
I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs.
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly.
Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?
Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat.
I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous.
I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.
When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.
If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.