Lovotics, the Uncanny Valley and the Grand Challenges

Lovotics, the relatively new direction of robotics research, aims to bring love, affection and friendship between the human and the robot. In this paper, we will discuss the key aspects and raise some basic questions, which must be addresses for designing a 'lovotics robot', which is expected to be capable of stimulating mutual love-like bond between the human and the robot. We must also be careful of not falling in the uncanny valley.

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