Here are the robots. They produce our automobiles, provide fast food, and mine the ocean floor. And in the not-too-distant future, their presence will spread into our homes and businesses, making human-robot interaction commonplace and daily. What shape will this future take? What will determine how people and machines interact? Here, Kate Darling, a known authority on robot ethics, demonstrates how we must get past the notion that this technology will resemble us in order to comprehend the new robot world. She contends that we ought to focus on our interactions with animals instead. Robots will complement ? rather than replace ? our own skills and abilities, just as we have harnessed the power of animals to help us in combat and work. A deeply original analysis of our technological future and the ethical dilemmas that await us, The New Breed explains how the treatment of machines can reveal a new understanding of our own history, our own systems and how we relate - not just to non-humans, but also to each other.