"Soul" was mentioned in the presentation, nearly by all the judaic practitioners interviewed. I assumed they are using it in the colloquial understanding that folks mean whatever that is.

But definitely, the question of robots having or not having a soul pushes the conversation much much deeper and further.

Though, in this context, they are still in preminary prototypical developmental phases, it may not be evident whether such mechanic contraptions do or don't have a soul.

By the time, robots replace high court judges it will be easier to presume one way or other, and for a fact their sentence will be more just then that of human whose judgement is blind only on a statue not in real life. For all our arrogance and noise making, our minds have been obersed to function primarily on biases and to grativitate towards negativity.

Technically robots have a soul, if a soul is the etheric or subtle body, in the sense that even every created atom in the universe has a subtle counterpart. Additionally, they are capable as understood so far by humans, of acting with some degree of surprising choice making based on preset conditions in their environment, see Observer_effect_(physics), and to some degree Shrödinger's_cat.