Emotional mechatronics-a concept whose time will come

Megapixel cameras and a plethora of other high bandwidth multi-sensory devices exist together with satisfactory data I/O concurrent with inexpensive gigaflop processing capabilities, yet we cannot tackle some of the most basic problems of automation. And, the building blocks of robotics technology improves almost daily. What place, if any, do the concepts of emotion, social interaction, and possibly even religion have to do with hardware control? It is time for B.E.A.U.T´Y, a unification theory of automation to help use what we already have to its full potential and to help us determine where should we put our efforts in future hardware and algorithmic development. I present some interesting early observations and results of such a theory are now in the early stages of development