Picard: Religion and science 'not incompatible'
Rosalind Picard, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told HARDtalk that the process of creating robots helps us understand how human bodies work and makes her in awe of the complexity of human creation.
She denied that science and religion are incompatible, arguing that, although she agreed with the biology of evolution, science cannot answer questions about why we are here.
You can watch the full interview on BBC World News on Thursday 24 October at 14:30 and 20:30 GMT and on the BBC News Channel at 00:30 on Friday 25 October.