How Do We Feel About Working Next To Robots?

“We naturally project to and expect from robots human qualities such as personality, gender, ethnicity, and competence. In the past, research on teamwork and collaboration has focused on  enhancing the outcomes and making teams more viable between people. It is now vital that we expand our effort to unpacking human minds toward robotic colleagues and managing sustainable human-robot teamwork”, comments Sangseok You, assistant professor of information systems at HEC Paris.