Crying Robot , by Mr.A What is 'machine yearning'? Intense longing exhibited by cartoon robots? Or a clever pun that describes a network analysis of prolonged grief symptoms? ( Malgaroli et al., 2022 ). My late wife was a writer who was very fond of robots and Futurama . This post is an opportunity to incorporate them all into a brief narrative about the computational psychiatry of prolonged grief disorder . Concert goers booed the avant garde tuba playing robot, but it wasn't programmed to feel