Humans Getting Too Emotionally Attached To Robot Coworkers Finds New Study

A group of US and Korean experts have cautioned that scenarios in which a human worker establishes a strong emotional attachment with their robot coworker could cause the company's overall "teamwork quality and performance" to suffer.

On February 10, experts from the University of Michigan and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea released a study (read below). It was discovered that when a worker becomes increasingly connected to a robot, a "us-versus-them" mindset develops, with the h...

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