Eureka Seven: Robots are alive?

The animated series Eureka Seven is one that I can remotely think about in this context of robots and machines.  We follow the character of Renton Thurston who meets a girl named Eureka as well as her machine the Nirvash.  For the most part, Renton falls in love with a Eureka with an uncanny connection with her machine, Nirvash, as well as other machines.  Plainly stated, Eureka believed that all machines had a heart/emotions.  Our young protagonist being young and naïve wishes to believe this is true due to the interaction with a device called a compact drive (as well as his interactions with his sister’s beliefs).  The device begins to glow in order to express emotions.  As the series goes on, the Nirvash follow’s Renton’s and Eureka’s interactions and based on the development of the relationship between the individuals themselves as well as both of them.  This is almost exactly replicated in the antagonist’s machine.  The antagonist had tendencies to go berserk and kill everything in sight.  The machine encouraged the berserk tendencies and only helped to further these immoral/dangerous actions.  

The Nirvash later had the wish to evolve at one point in the series and expresses the wish to change its original capabilities and ultimately the machine developed into something that would held the world together when the sentient being keeping the world alive was unable to sustain all life on Earth.

We can sort of consider the Nirvash as a machine with an artificial intelligence in the sense that it obtained information and considered an upgrade of sorts when its current capabilities weren’t enough.  In today’s technology we can consider the Nirvash as an advanced form of a humanoid robot that are being developed today.  We, as humans, desire efficiency and convenience once all of our basic needs are met.  Robots are a tool that can help us to automate our mundane tasks.  We are looking into developing AIs with machine learning in order to have a self-improving AI to do its job with the best efficiency, but maybe not to the extent of the Nirvash.

If done incorrectly or without safety boundaries, we may have a dangerous new technology that we as humans may not be able to correct or defend against if not careful with the example being the antagonist’s machine.  We can consider robots and machines alike to be a great boon to society but a bane to society if not monitored and watched in development.  Though this is something that is most likely far off into the future as these technologies are still being developed as well as optimized for the base stages of development.

Considering the Nirvash’s attitude and sentient thought, it was hard to distinguish between humans and machines (besides the physical appearance).  So it may be stating the fact that once one has sentient thought and is able to learn new things and create emotion as well, we are human.