A tech startup has developed 'SomaCradle', an automated infant care system designed to raise babies with minimal human contact. The SomaCradle automatically monitors the infant’s vitals, plays synthetic lullabies when they cry, and dispenses warm formula from an integrated mechanical feeding arm. The parents only enter the nursery twice a day to clean the machine and change the infant's diaper while the infant is deeply asleep.
Using your knowledge of the learning theory of attachment, explain why an infant raised in the SomaCradle would be unlikely to form an emotional attachment to their parents.
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