How Do Humans Really Feel About Robots?

In a world where mannequins track your every move and the waiter at that restaurant is made of metal, robots are inevitably becoming more commonplace.

But how much do we really care about these cold, controlled helpers? Most robots we encounter are far from the emotionally-capable interpretations in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. One robotics professor in New Zealand put it to the test, analyzing whether a robots intelligence and agreeableness influence human interaction.

In Christoph Bartneck's study (loosely based on the Milgram obedience experiment), he sought to determine how people would react if a robot begged for its "life." Bartneck found that participant…
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