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Could we make robotic companions for kids?

ew horror movie is essentially Chucky meets the Terminator. Its titular star is posited as the future of massmarket robots: a lifelike doll that has been programmed to be a child's best friend. It can listen, it can learn, it can dance (trust me, watch the trailer, it can ) and it can also, in what is surely a big design flaw, kill. Not ideal. Deadly robots

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