Acknowledgements

I am indebted to Michael Graziano, Jacob Cohen, Luis Sentis, Naira Hovakimyan, Dermot Mee, David Pearce, Paul Horn and Daniel Theobald for their invaluable time, expertise and insights.

I would also like to thank Emad Suhail Rahim for serving as editor and for his contributions towards the Robot Taxonomy and the test for sentience. Additionally I'd like to thank my cofounder Tigran Shahverdyan for reviewing early drafts and providing critical inputs.