<div id="region-column1and2-layout2"><h1 class="heading">Heart Robot: red hot date at the Science Museum</h1><h2 class="sub-heading padding-top-5 padding-bottom-15"></h2><!-- END: Module - Main Heading --> </div><div id="region-column1-layout2"><!--CMA user Call Diffrenet Variation Of Image --><!-- BEGIN: Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --><script type="text/javascript" src="/tol/js/m24-image-browser.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/tol/js/tol.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"><!-- /* Global variables that are used for "image browsing". Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. */ var sImageBrowserImagePath = ''; var aArticleImages = new Array(); var aImageDescriptions = new Array(); var aImageEnlargeLink = new Array(); var aImageEnlargePopupWidth = '500'; var aImageEnlargePopupHeight = '500'; var aImagePhotographer = new Array(); var nSelectedArticleImage = 0; var i=0; var aImageAltText= new Array(); //--></script><script type="text/javascript"><!-- aArticleImages[i] = '/multimedia/archive/00376/Robot1360_376039a.jpg'; //--></script><script type="text/javascript"> <!-- aImageDescriptions[i] = 'Not the date Will Pavia was expecting'; //--></script><script type="text/javascript"><!-- aImagePhotographer[i] = 'Bruno Vincent'; //--></script><!--Don't Display undifined test for credit --><script type="text/javascript"><!-- aImageAltText[i] = 'Times Journalist, Will Pabia interacts with a robot at the Science Museum'; //--></script><script type="text/javascript"><!-- aImageEnlargeLink[i] = '/multimedia/archive/00376/Robot1360_376039a.jpg'; i=i+1; //--></script><div><div class="article-author"><!-- BEGIN: Portrait image --><div class="float-right padding-left-9 bg-fff"><div class="article-portrait-image"><div id="dynamic-image-holder"><img title="Times Journalist, Will Pabia interacts with a robot at the Science Museum" src="/multimedia/archive/00376/Robot1360_376039a.jpg" alt="Times Journalist, Will Pabia interacts with a robot at the Science Museum" border="0" width="185"></div><!-- Remove following <div> to not show photographer information --><div class="article-portrait-image-text-container"><div class="padding-left-right-10 padding-bottom-7"> <div id="dynamic-image-photographer" class="padding-top-5"><p class="x-small color-999">(Bruno Vincent)</p></div></div></div><!-- Remove following <div> to not show image description --><div class="article-portrait-image-text-container"><div class="padding-left-right-10 padding-bottom-7"><div id="dynamic-image-description" class="padding-top-5"><p class="small color-666">Not the date Will Pavia was expecting</p></div></div></div><!-- Tip: This <div> here with the id "dynamic-image-navigation" is used so that the innerHTML can be written to by the JS call below. --><div id="pagination-container" class="pagination-container"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- fCreateImageBrowser(nSelectedArticleImage,'portrait',"/tol/"); //--></script></div></div><div class="clear-simple padding-bottom-10"></div></div><!-- END: Portrait image --><!-- Print Author name from By Line associated with the article --><span class="byline"> Will Pavia </span></div></div><!-- END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --><!-- Article Copy module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> <!-- Check the Article Type and display accordingly--><!-- Print Author image associated with the Author--><!-- Print the body of the article--><div id="related-article-links"><!-- Pagination --><!--Display article with page breaks --><p> Hurrying towards my assignation with a robot that could understand human emotions, I was quite excited. My ex-girlfriends say that I am incapable of understanding human emotion and it was hard not to think of the incredible impact this meeting might have on my personal life. </p><p> Equally, it was hard not to see the earth-shattering importance of my date with Heart Robot in the broader context of mankind&#x2019;s developing relationship with machines. I had put on a clean suit and my lucky tie. I had purchased a red rose. I had prepared an arsenal of robot chat-up lines: &#x201c;I think our systems are compatible&#x201d;; &#x201c;I&#x2019;m like a machine in the bedroom&#x201d;, and so on.</p></div></div>