In the final installment of the three-part series on Robots, Futuri CEO Daniel Anstandig wonders if robots can, or ever will, have a soul.

As robotics continues to advance, this is a tricky question that has caused science and spirituality to converge in unprecedented ways. What exactly is a soul? Where does it reside in our bodies? And if we don’t know, how can we bestow it onto something we create? Perhaps putting our own souls into robots is the closest we’ll get: Anti-aging is a huge business, and technology will have a huge part to play in our longevity, from legacy pages on Facebook to uploading our consciousness into the Cloud to Elon Musk’s goal of merging our brains with computers. But as far as AI developing a soul of its own, the jury is still out.

It seems to Daniel, after this three-episode deep dive, that “AI and robots do not have much purpose without us – they’re assistive, not substitutive, and they wouldn’t be here without us.” But with their help, we can have more time to be human than ever before.