Vijay Kumar Quotes

India, Scientist
November 7, 1954

Vijay Kumar (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian molecular biologist, virologist and an Honorary Scientist at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Known for his research in hepatology, Kumar is an elected fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Medical Sciences, and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences as well as a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Biotechnology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1997.

Also known as Virologist, Geneticist, Biochemist

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

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- Eyes
- Coffee
- Drinking
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

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- Hand
- Brain
- Hands

Robots are good at things that are structured.

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- Good
- Things
- Robots
Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.

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- Fly
- Possible
- Robots
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

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- Make
- Navigate
- Maze
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

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- Law
- Question
- Play
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

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I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

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- Women
- Dream
- Law

The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.

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- Challenge
- Fly
- Flying
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.

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- You
- Communication
- Robots
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.

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- Want
- Small
- Moment