 For people who wonder whether they will ever love a robot, I would say, I hope so because you will be a robot. In a sense, all of us already are robots. We're meat robots. There's a certain conscious experience associated with the configuration of molecules that makes up a human body. In a similar way, a robot, a computer, it's a configuration of molecules, of particles and I see no reason why the configuration of molecules constituting an engineered robot cannot have consciousness in the same sense that the molecules constituting an evolved biological body has and in the end, as we repair our brains with nanobots and as we advance brain-computer interfacing, hybridizing ourselves with localized and networked machines, in the end, the distinction between an organic evolved robot such as I am right now and an engineered robot made of silicon, metal and whatever other funky compounds are invented, this distinction will probably not seem so meaningful anymore. It's all just configurations of matter endowed with sparks of consciousness and it will take many, many different forms as technology evolves.