Companionship with robotics

In Class on the 29th we discussed the role of robots and weather or not they can be seen as companions. Turkle also addressed this subject in her book when in comes to AIBO, This robotic dog is seen by some people as very real and as a close companion which is the issue Turkle wants to address, when is it ok and not ok to grow so close to robotics that we see it as a "friend" or something like that?? i think this is is extremely fascinating and i hope to learn more about it this semester because i don't have an opinion on this yet at least not a well developed one. i just like this issue i think it is thought provoking.