{"id":2113172,"date":"2019-07-24T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=2113172"},"modified":"2019-07-24T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T12:24:11","slug":"robots-emotions-work-2113172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/robots-emotions-work-2113172\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling fond of robots makes for better teams"},"content":{"rendered":"
We develop attachments to the robots we work with and those emotions can affect team performance, report researchers.<\/p>\n
Soldiers develop attachments to the robots that help them diffuse bombs in the field. Despite numerous warnings about privacy, millions of us trust smart speakers like Alexa to listen into our daily lives. Some of us name our cars and even shed tears when we trade them in for shiny new vehicles.<\/p>\n
Research has shown that individually we develop emotional, trusting relationships with robotic technology, but until now scientists have known little about the attachments groups that work with robots form.<\/p>\n
Previous studies have focused on linking emotional attachment to robots with individual fun and enjoyment in more playful settings, says Sangseok You, who began what he and colleagues believe is the first study of its kind on attachment between groups and robots as a doctoral candidate at the School of Information at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n
“We found that humans perform better with robotic teammates when they have strong emotional attachment to them,” says You, now an assistant professor at HEC Paris. “This means that organizations like Amazon should invest in approaches that encourage their employees to have some level of emotional attachment with their robotic coworkers.”<\/p>\n