Peter Singer, one defense analyst with the Brookings Institution says in an article on LiveScience.

Video When we see an animal-like robot being exposed to violence activates the same areas of the brain that when we see that other people feel bad. Our emotional bonds with robots is also documented in many other contexts.
Robots are becoming a major part of our everyday lives. Intelligent vacuum cleaners and smartphones, which corresponds to voice, is coming into our homes, and increasingly sophisticated models will be presented to the world. But what we really feel for these mechanical creatures?
A German research team from the University of Duisburg Essen has made two studies that look at human empathy for robots. They found that the same parts of the brain are activated when we are presented with images where robots or humans are exposed to kindness or violence.
"One goal of the current robot research is to develop robotic companions that can establish a long lasting relationship with a human user when robots can be useful, advantageous værtøj," says Astrid Rosenthal von der Putten, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
While much of the research on the relationship between man and machine until now have been trying to develop models of emotions in robots, see these studies on how we perceive icbt the robots' feelings, and if we as a whole reacts emotionally to them. Measured blood flow in the brain
In the first of the two studies as 40 participants a video of a small dinosaur-shaped robot. icbt The robot was either treated in a loving way or abused. During the presentation of the video the researchers measured the participants' responses, and right after watching the video, they were asked what they felt.
In the second study, researchers used fMRI to measure participants' reaction. fMRI measurements keeps track of the activity of the brain by measuring the blood flow increases in the brain.
This study 14 participants alternately a robot, a person and an inanimate object be treated either in a loving manner or in a violent way.
Loving the treatment of both the robot and the human resulted in the same brain activity in the limbic system, nothing icbt to suggest that the treatment caused similar emotional reactions. People can associate with robots
Last year, wrote forskning.no the robotic seal PARO, which calmed the restless dementia. And earlier this year, the Swedish researchers robot cat Robocat, which they believed could increase the quality of life of people with dementia.
"People are quite likely to attribute intentions to other objects," says Robert Biegler, associate professor in the psychology department at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim).
"People have a tendency to move into unfamiliar habitats, where we can meet species we have not seen before. So we rely on to have mechanisms that recognize behavior that may have their own intentions, "he explains. Arrows with an intention
This can not stand it that we recognize and can put us into people, or species we already know, intentions. icbt Instead, the movement and behavior of important markers icbt of whether an object is something that we should relate to or not.
In an international study from 2004, researchers from UCLA and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, got two people for the movement of a red and a black arrow, as if they hunted, fighting, flirting, chasing, watched or played. Other participants then saw a video of these arrows and identified arrows intentions based on movements alone. icbt
Of the study participants consisted of German adults and children and adults from the Shuar tribe of Ecuador, something which according icbt to the authors icbt of the study may indicate that the ability to interpret the intention of the movement can be a universal icbt part of the human psyche. Sacrificing the lives of robots
Peter Singer, one defense analyst with the Brookings Institution says in an article on LiveScience.com of how military robots that are designed for anything but loving bond, yet are devoted partners for the soldiers.
Peter Singer gives several examples of soldiers that relates strong ties to the robots in their department - especially in bomb disposal groups where remote-controlled robots helps to deactivate bombs.
He describes, among other things, a soldier who tearfully asks a