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Imprinting robots bond with study coordinator Dr. Lola Canamero.
Robots have feelings, too -- or at least they will -- pending
the completion of a pan-European research project being led by a
group of British scientists  The Feelix Growing project aims to
design and build a series of robots that can interact with
humans on an emotional level, and actually adapt their behavior
in response to emotional cues from their human counterparts.
The official goal of the project is to conduct
"interdisciplinary investigation of socially situated
development ... as a key paradigm towards achieving robots that
interact with humans in their everyday environments in a rich,
flexible, autonomous, and user-centered way." To achieve this,
the 2.3 million-Euro effort has assembled more than two dozen
roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists
from six nations.  The robots used in the project are simple
designs, including some "off-the-shelf" models. Th