They cite one case study in which a 10-year-old girl, who had been given a robot doll for several weeks, reported that "now that she's played with me a lot more, she really knows me".

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Nunu thinks she knows everything about me.

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She thinks she knows everything about me.

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When I first got Mindy it was pretty hard because she didn't listen to me, but now she does and she knows a lot of commands.

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Needless to say, I made sure that, without question, my mom knows that I think about what she and dad meant to me.

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But she knows that I drive our tech better than she does and she's happy to leave it to me.

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