This was a rather interesting episode in a series of reportage of the VPRO in Holland, called From homo sapiens to robo-sapiens. Comments are in Dutch, but most of the interviews are in English:
http://beagle.vpro.nl/#/widget/afleveringen/28
Made me wonder if robots will someday be our best friends, our best lovers? And can robots have a ‘soul’, after they developed emotions and character? Will they find the answer on a question like whether there is a God (provided that this isn’t a irrelevant question like, why 1+1=3?) and make us understand his inscrutable ways?
Because, after they understand us better than we do ourselves (because they know how to interpret our communication faultlessly, both verbal and non-verbal) and after experiencing nurture they should develop unique sets of universal senses, behavior and emotions (which are physiologic appointable features as I ‘feel’ it), what can stand in the way of this? Yeah well, money, but…hypothetically?