When I was in Asheville this past December, I went into a shop that was selling local artists’ paintings. I love local art. I love art and the artists behind it. The artist they were currently hosting did a series on robots. She placed robots into completely normal human situations and made them approachable. It seemed oddly normal to see a robot playing an instrument or climbing out a trash can with a raccoon, as though I had already seen it all before. Her idea behind it was to add emotion to things we usually see as being emotionless. And I’ll admit, I’m completely guilty to this. I’ve never seen robots as being beings that could feel or express in any way, but this made me think how wrong that was. How close minded of me for believing that just because something wasn’t human, didn’t mean it wasn’t living.

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