Table 3 Impact on existing social relationships.

2.1 Friends and family

“I can't think that it would make much difference to friends and family coming to see us. I can’t think that. But maybe for me going out to see them if I needed to take something and they were local. It might be good for that.”—F7, Aged 74

“No. Why would it? I mean, I might say “Would you like to come and see my robot?”, but that would only be the once! [Laughing] […] I mean, that’s very sad, isn’t it?!”—F3, Aged 76

“I don't think so. No. I don't see them coming around to visit the robot. If you had a dog, it'd be different. […] don’t think it has the same drawing power. It probably would when you're out, you know, in terms of people being interested to know what it was—“What on earth”, that sort of thing. But I don't see anyone coming to visit you because you've got it. Unless someone else is thinking of getting one.”—M3, Aged 84

“I mean, I have been talking about it. I have a son in the States who is… Who is a computing architect, and a brother… He's a design engineer, and I sent them both pictures, I mean, and they were both interested.”—F1, Aged 81