How Do People Respond to Being Touched by a Robot?

Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 10:03 in Psychology & Sociology

For people, being touched can initiate many different reactions from comfort to discomfort, from intimacy to aggression. But how might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil,...

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