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Robot And Squirrel Share Tender Moment

In his ongoing series, sci-fi artist Donato Giancola depicts the soft center of A.I.

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More Empathetic People Have Physically Different Brains

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Humans Can Feel Empathy Toward Robots

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Brain scans find that the two modes are mutually exclusive.