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Jibo was one of the first social robots designed as a friend to human in the way it interacts or looks around. People started treating it as a part of their family but simultaneously they also developed emotions for the bot. This became very evident when the support for Jibo went down this year and people put out their reactions to it. Evolution has given us a predisposition to be interested in developing caring relationships for creatures outside our own species. We shouldn’t forget that though tech has advanced, we are still the same humans who have tendencies to find facial patterns in clouds and beliefs in idols.