These risks are especially acute among children, the elderly, and the physically and mentally challenged - society's most vulnerable members and the very people for whom robots are being developed. "Will only the wealthy and 'well adjusted' be granted the company of their own kind?" Turkle muses. She says that children in particular can develop empathy and a sense of reciprocity only with other people, not with robots. Furthermore, many of the children she has studied seem to lack attentive parents to make the children feel important. …