Clearly if a robot is going to be designed to elicit feelings it’s going to use the methods used in anime, the stage, fiction, etc. For one thing you can simplify the process by building “sessile robots” like the peppers ghost thing that son’s have any moving parts but still use sensors to be aware of the environment or do a good job of faking it.
I don’t know if I’ll ever really do it but I’d love to do a sketch comedy routine together with a video game character reflected in a mirror, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost
Clearly if a robot is going to be designed to elicit feelings it’s going to use the methods used in anime, the stage, fiction, etc. For one thing you can simplify the process by building “sessile robots” like the peppers ghost thing that son’s have any moving parts but still use sensors to be aware of the environment or do a good job of faking it.