{"id":7176,"date":"2018-02-16T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:03","slug":"robots-with-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/16\/robots-with-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots with personality seem more trustworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As more robots are showing up in all kinds of jobs, organizations must figure out how to successfully integrate human and robot co-workers. But how? According to a recent study co-authored by School of Information associate professor<b>\u00a0Lionel Robert<\/b>, it&#8217;s by making robots more like people. The study, \u201cHuman-Robot Similarity and Willingness to Work with a Robotic Co-worker,\u201d\u00a0found that making robots more human in both appearance and behavior increased participant trust levels in robot co-workers. Robert credits the huge advances in artificial intelligence that make it possilble to give robots a \u201cpersonality\u201d that humans can relate to.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/news\/robots-personality-seem-more-trustworthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/news\/robots-personality-seem-more-trustworthy&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1518634172394000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE3KdwRv4gnbjxla67YkVST6irw7A\">Read the full story on the SI news site<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7178\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7178\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7178\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png\" alt=\"Human-like robot waves to a couple of shoppers\" width=\"472\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png 472w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950-125x83.png 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(SoftBank Robotics)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more robots are showing up in all kinds of jobs, organizations must figure out how to successfully integrate human and robot co-workers. But how? According to a recent study co-authored by School of Information associate professor\u00a0Lionel Robert, it&#8217;s by making robots more like people. The study, \u201cHuman-Robot Similarity and Willingness to Work with a Robotic Co-worker,\u201d\u00a0found that\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/16\/robots-with-personality\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,421,260],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai","tag-robot","tag-si"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png",472,314,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950-125x83.png",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png",472,314,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png",472,314,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png",472,314,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png",472,314,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950-472x300.png",472,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png",472,314,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pepper-b2b_1-e1518548576950.png",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"As more robots are showing up in all kinds of jobs, organizations must figure out how to successfully integrate human and robot co-workers. 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