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Relationships with Robots

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.