“Part of my mental model has always been, we live in this world at many different kinds of intelligences, many different kinds of creatures…many different kinds of entities that all have their niche of intelligence and in some of those cases their niche elements of emotion…the assumption seems to be, robots should have human emotion—to which I have to say, robots will never have human emotions—they’re not human! So there’s kind of this conflation.” —Cynthia Breazeal on the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast