Could robots acquire a conscience, and so emotions?possibility?

Question: Could robots acquire a conscience, and so emotions?possibility?
- Keywords:
  conscience,
  emotion,
  neuroscience,
  robot,
  technology
Asked by bluesapphire93 to James on 13 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by coxhc02.
- James Stovold answered on 13 Mar 2013:
  
  This is a very interesting question. It’s possible to build a form of hormones into robots, but we found that they would generally just run away and hide! In general, it’s very difficult to build a conscience into a robot, as it would need to learn what is right and wrong first, which we spend years teaching children to understand, so getting a robot to understand would take even longer.

Question: Could robots acquire a conscience, and so emotions?possibility?