Can Robots Feel?

[ethics]

A bed of colorful robotic flowers (http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/massave1203.asp?p=6) that respond to human movement were designed to challenge commonly held assumptions about what robots can be. "They can touch you on an emotional and aesthetic level, too,” says Breazeal.

Consider a combination of an intellectual, mobile robot with feelings and would that be getting closer to the more "human" robots?