When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study - Robohub

by The Conversation

31 August 2026

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By Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University; Ewart J. de Visser, United States Air Force Academy; Frank Krueger, George Mason University, and Yigit Topoglu, United States Air Force Academy

People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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