Robots affect on science

Overall, from studies of robots conducted in situ, there was important insights about how robots fit into and change the social structures at work, at home, and in public settings, and how people behave when robots are intertwined with their daily lives. Unfortunately, studies of robots in context are too few. As a result, we can’t predict the effects that a robot will have across a variety of social contexts. It is hard to know when existing findings from the lab will hold since they tell us little about how people will respond to robots placed in the everyday web of activities and social relationships that characterize our lives.