Kids Succumb to Peer Pressure… from Robots

This is a little bit alarming, don’t you think? A study recently published in Science Robotics found that children are vulnerable to peer pressure exerted by “small humanoid robots” (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/08/15/robot-peer-pressure-is-coming/#.W3WU9s5Kj3h). It doesn’t even have to be from other kids. The test, repeated on 43 different children, was to sit a child down with three “small humanoid robots” and ask, … Continue reading Kids Succumb to Peer Pressure… from Robots