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When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary

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By Hasan Ayaz, Ewart J. de Visser, Frank A. Krueger
| Tech Xplore Verified
Credit: igovar igovar from Pexels People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner. In our new study published in the journal Science Robotics, we had 50 people hold conversations and make joint decisions with the commercial humanoid robot Pepper, which is designed to be expressive and recognize emotions. Sometimes we had the robot give sound advice.
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Why a friendlier robot loses your trust faster when It messes up

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By Hasan Ayaz, Ewart J. de Visser, Frank A. Krueger
| Fortune Verified
People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner. In our new study published in the journal Science Robotics, we had 50 people hold conversations and make joint decisions with the commercial humanoid robot Pepper, which is designed to be expressive and recognize emotions. Sometimes we had the robot give sound advice.
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When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study

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By Hasan Ayaz, Ewart J. de Visser, Frank A. Krueger, George Mason, Yigit Topoglu
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Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University; Ewart J. de Visser, United States Air Force Academy; Frank Krueger, George Mason University, and Yigit Topoglu, United States Air Force Academy Mon, 3 August 2026 at 1:32 pm UTC 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Expressive humanoid robots are intended to make people feel at ease when interacting with them.
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