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In our next podcast, we joined Dr Kate Deflin, who is researching Love love robots and how and when we might start living intimate

relationships with such machines.

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Thank you very much for having me here. I'm an academic so I love talking about my

academic research and we'll talk about it all night. Unfortunately I'm one of those

academics where my research sort of has broader appeal I think. It has the word sex

and it has the word robots in it. So that's generally a good start. So I actually, so I'm a senior lecturer

at Goldsmiths, University of London. I actually started life as an archaeologist, my undergraduate degree is in archaeology.

I worked as in the field literally for a while and pardon the pun there is no future in archaeology if you want to get

ahead in your career so you have to specialise I know right so I have to specialise and so I

decided that the computers were a good way to go and And so I went back to university, did a master's,

and a PhD in computer science.

I work in the area of HCI, which is human computer interaction,

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