What’s Mother’s Day If You’ve Been Born In A Machine And Raised By Robots?

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Could a robot raise a child without the need for a mother? Shutterstock/Linda Bucklin

As far-fetched as it may seem today, there are a couple of compelling reasons why some humans may one day be born without either a mother or father as we now know them, and with no other humans around to bring them up.

The first is the uninhabitable Earth scenario: doomsday. This is the idea that one day our planet will not be able to support human life.