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of closely interacting robots and humans opens social and ethical questions beyond
these addressed in this chapter (Lin et al. 2012 ). At the societal level, the impact of
these synergies on the image of one self and humankind, the possibility of emo-
tional bounds between robots and humans, questions like who is legally responsible
for possible robot malfunctions, the degree of autonomy and the rights that might be
granted to robots, the role that they might play in war, and whether they should have
moral standards are not anymore only the realm of science fiction but start to be
discussed in various public forums by researchers and philosophers. In this frame-
work, we believe that biomimetism is a crucial feature in human-robot interaction
to be explored and implemented at multiple levels, from the bodily “superficial”
appearance to the “hidden” cognitive architecture that allows the accumulation of
memory, knowledge, and, ultimately, mutual understanding.
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