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Animals have many different motivations and they must decide which of their different motivations they should try at any given time to satisfy with their behavior. Emotions are states of an individual芒聙聶s body and brain that allow the motivational decision mechanism of the individual to function more properly, that is, in ways that increase the individual芒聙聶s survival and reproductive chances. The article describes five different simulated robots which, unlike current 芒聙聵芒聙聵emotional芒聙聶芒聙聶 robots, can be said to have emotions. The robots may need to eat and drink, eat and fly away from a predator, eat and find a mating partner, eat and take care of their offspring, or eat and rest in order to heal from physical damage. We show that adding a special emotional circuit to the neural network controlling the robots芒聙聶 behavior leads to better motivational decisions, and therefore to higher fitness, and we describe how in many circumstances the robots endowed with an emotional circuit behave differently than those lacking the circuit. We conclude by indicating various directions of future research.