Robots displaying emotional responses, is one of the greatest challenges not only of robotics, but also in understanding ourselves. What exactly makes us emotionally engaged? Is emotional behavior corresponds to real emotions? What are real emotions anyway?

What a great clip Silkweaver! What is emotional interaction? It is the ablility to feel what the other person is feeling such as sadness, excitement, joy, happiness, or grief. One bonds through the sharing of such deep feelings.

"We can't switch our friends on and off"

I know how to turn my friend on.

"Your friend?"
Is that what the kids are calling them these days?

After science and technology, The field of emotions is perhaps the next frontier of human evolution. Our emotional repertoire can be likened to stone age technology, time to invent some wheels, time to find deeper answers.