Robots that Care

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<p>In the first of a two-part series, Jon Stewart charts the advances in robotics that are increasingly leading to direct one-to-one contact between humans and robots. </p><p>Jon visits robotocists and their collaborators in the US and UK and asks how the robots will be used in the future. </p><p>He examines the way cinema has shaped our ideas of robots and investigates the gulf between our expectations of what robots can do and the reality.</p><p>A fundamental question that scientists are posing is how we should consider the robots who, in the near future, will live alongside us in our homes. </p><p>Should they be considered slaves, pets or friends? </p><p>Jon also explores how the ideas of author Isaac Asimov, that firstly robots should do no harm, have evolved over the decades.</p><p>Photo: Getty</p>