Robot arousal experiment
- 8 years ago
Touching a Mechanical Body: Tactile Contact With Intimate Parts of a Human-Shaped Robot is Physiologically Arousing."
The experiment consisted of instructions spoken by the robot followed by 26 trials. Each trial had three parts. 1. Robot asks participant to touch it. 2. Participant touches robot's body part. 3. Robot teaches participant medical term for the body part.
Read the article: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/how-would-you-feel-if-a-robot-asked-you-to-touch-its-buttocks/
The experiment consisted of instructions spoken by the robot followed by 26 trials. Each trial had three parts. 1. Robot asks participant to touch it. 2. Participant touches robot's body part. 3. Robot teaches participant medical term for the body part.
Read the article: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/how-would-you-feel-if-a-robot-asked-you-to-touch-its-buttocks/