I think in 10 or 20 years this will be very common, especially if maintaining and feeding cats and dogs becomes...

I think in 10 or 20 years this will be very common, especially if maintaining and feeding cats and dogs becomes prohibitively expense.

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

"Should children form emotional bonds with robots?" "Anki has hired animators from Pixar and DreamWorks to design some 1,200 little movements for the robot to make. Their animation software is hooked up directly to sample robots: The animators create new ways to show that Cozmo is, say, frustrated, and play them back through its body to see how people interpret the robot's actions. The goal is to choreograph movements and expressions that will induce genuine emotions in the toy's owner."

"It seemed almost cruel to design a robot that could play on a young kid's emotions. And I had never considered that, in the coming human -- robot conflagration, robots might take over simply by expertly manipulating us into letting them win."

"Pretend empathy does not do the job. If relationships with smart toys crowd out those with friends or family, even partially, we might see children growing up without the equipment for empathic connection."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/my-sons-first-robot/544137/?single_page=true