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Advanced robots can be programmed in order to perform any product configuration without any setup time or ramp up.

When the robots reach an intersection, they will pick randomly whether to go left, right, or forward.

Now, this is often caricatured, as I have here, as a fear that armies of malicious robots will attack us.

It was this toy called a Pleo that I had ordered, and I was really excited about it because I've always loved robots.

And one of the things I discovered was that my treatment of this machine was more than just an awkward moment in my living room, that in a world where we're increasingly integrating robots into our lives, an instinct like that might actually have consequences, because the first thing that I discovered is that it's not just me.

Now, what would cause a hardened military officer and someone like myself to have this response to robots?

So people will treat all sorts of robots like they're alive.

And research shows that we do this even with very simple household robots, like the Roomba vacuum cleaner.

And we can design robots specifically to evoke this response, using eyes and faces or movements that people automatically, subconsciously associate with states of mind.

Now, we're headed towards a world where robots are everywhere.

I think it's plausible we might start to integrate robots in similar ways.

And I can tell you, from working with roboticists, that we're pretty far away from developing robots that can feel anything.

But we feel for them, and that matters, because if we're trying to integrate robots into these shared spaces, we need to understand that people will treat them differently than other devices, and that in some cases, for example, the case of a soldier who becomes emotionally attached to the robot that they work with, that can be anything from inefficient to dangerous.

But in other cases, it can actually be useful to foster this emotional connection to robots.

We're already seeing some great use cases, for example, robots working with autistic children to engage them in ways that we haven't seen previously, or robots working with teachers to engage kids in learning with new results.

Early studies show that robots can help doctors and patients in health care settings.

I can't believe we're giving people robots instead of human care."

What this robot replaces is animal therapy in contexts where we can't use real animals but we can use robots, because people will consistently treat them more like an animal than a device.

Acknowledging this emotional connection to robots can also help us anticipate challenges as these devices move into more intimate areas of people's lives.

Because robots plus capitalism equals questions around consumer protection and privacy.

And we took five of these baby dinosaur robots and we gave them to five teams of people.

And then we unveiled a hammer and a hatchet and we told them to torture and kill the robots.

And this turned out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said, "OK, you can save your team's robot if you destroy another team's robot."

So finally, we said, "We're going to destroy all of the robots unless someone takes a hatchet to one of them."

Now this is just a little study, but it's part of a larger body of research that is starting to indicate that there may be a connection between people's tendencies for empathy and their behavior around robots.

But my question for the coming era of human-robot interaction is not: "Do we empathize with robots?"

It's: "Can robots change people's empathy?"

When we behave violently towards robots, specifically robots that are designed to mimic life, is that a healthy outlet for violent behavior or is that training our cruelty muscles?

We don't know ... But the answer to this question has the potential to impact human behavior, it has the potential to impact social norms, it has the potential to inspire rules around what we can and can't do with certain robots, similar to our animal cruelty laws.

Because even if robots can't feel, our behavior towards them might matter for us.

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