If Turkle is right that these two groups are the ones getting the robots, we need to think again about the world we build with them.

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The main costs of space exploration arise from the fact that we are set on sending humans, rather than robots.

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In relation, we evolved to choose mates who are healthy, and weird robots may set off the same warning bells that told our ancestors to stay away from unfit sexual partners.

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Over this idea that the robots are going to steal all our jobs and what are we going to do then?

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As we speak, two remarkable robots are hard at work more than 30 million miles away on the surface of Mars.

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"The problem with tools - which is what robots are - is that we become dependent on them, " says Wilson, whose new novel Robopocalypse is being made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

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We also checked out Anthony Oh's super-cute recycled robots, which are so tiny they fit on the tip of your finger.

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