Authors:
Rae Yule Kim
People tend to be averse to interacting with robots and to the automation trend in general. One explanation is that many people are still susceptible to the media-generated impression of robots seen in movies such as The Terminator, where robots are not assistants but a threat to humanity. It is common for people to report a sense of uncanniness while interacting with robots, which is well documented in the uncanny valley theory and in many previous studies. Fortunately, this aversion toward robots is less salient in the medical field [1]. One reason is that the purpose of robots in…
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