Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Can a Robot Love?
Top roboticist Magnus Egerstedt explores whether robots can love in the UCI Robot Ecology Lab, where his altruistic robots take cues from animals. Egerstedt is the dean of the UCI Samueli School of Engineering and the creator of the SlothBot, RaccoonBot and the Robotarium, a swarm robot lab which has been used by over 7,000 researchers.
(Season 1, Episode 7)
24 days ago
If love is defined by a set of attitudes and behaviros, then it sounds like yes, Robots can be ’trained’ to have certain behaviors towars other robots, therefore exhibiting attributes of love!!
2 months ago
Love seeing robot tech helping humanity! Great information, Natalie!