We will love our robots. That much is hardwired into the human brain, according to Kate Darling, a research specialist at the MIT Media Lab.
From the heartfelt outpouring of sorrow when the friendly Canadian hitchhiking robot, Hitchbot, was vandalized in Philadelphia on its cross-US trip, to soldiers holding funerals for fallen robots that keep them alive, our attachment to mechanical creations runs deep, Darling said in a talk at the University of Waterloo this week.

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