Google is working toward the day when robots have individual personalities, according to the company’s U.S. patent application.

If Google’s technology works out, robots will have personalities that can be customized to suit the individual people they will be working with. In another step, the robots should be able to tailor their own personalities.

“Methods and systems for robot and user interaction are provided to generate a personality for the robot,” the company stated in the patent application, which was first filed in April 2012 and accepted earlier this week. “A robot may access a user device to determine or identify information about a user, and the robot may be configured to tailor a personality for interaction with the user based on the identified information.”

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