Expert: Robots may not be able to feel emotions, but some can show them

By Byron Spice

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Reid Simmons has created a robot that negotiates campus hallways, and a spacefaring robot that charted its own course to a distant asteroid. He has designed robots to operate autonomously. He has taught robots to work in teams.

But he has never programmed a robot to love. To fake love, maybe, but never to experience emotion.

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