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“The Measure of Everyday Life” is a weekly public radio program featuring researchers, practitioners, and professionals discussing their work to improve the human condition. Independent Weekly has called the show ‘unexpected’ and ‘diverse’ and notes that the show ‘brings big questions to radio.'

Episodes air Sunday nights at 6:30 PM EST in the Raleigh-Durham, NC, media market (and also are streamed internationally through WNCU) and are available online the Wednesday following the original airing. WNCU produces the show with major underwriting from the nonprofit RTI International.

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May 20, 2020

As we look for answers as to how we might organize and reorganize society and our daily interactions, many people have pointed to the possibilities for us to get help from automation, sometimes in the form of robots. What do we know about how people think about and trust robots in general? On this episode, we talk with Tracy Sanders, a researcher with The MITRE Corporation and the author of numerous compelling papers on human-robot relationships.