Study suggests people willing to take orders from a robot boss (w/ video)

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 08:02 in Mathematics & Economics

(Phys.org) —A study conducted by a team of researchers at Human Computer Interaction (MCI) Lab in Manitoba Canada, has revealed evidence that suggests that people can be prodded into doing something they don't want to do, by a robot. They've posted a blog entry on their web site describing an experiment they carried out to learn more about how people might respond to a robot boss, versus a human one, and the results they found.

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