How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?

by Open Roboethics Initiative

13 January 2015

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We have a tall order when it comes to dreaming up a trustworthy care robot: a robot could clean the house, find and fetch objects, and even keep seniors company. But if robots take on so many daily care tasks for the elderly, is it possible that seniors will have to interact with them too much? Is there such a thing as a socially acceptable amount of interaction with a care robot? Let us know what you think as we continue our reader polls about care robots.

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tags: c-Health-Medicine, care robots, cx-Politics-Law-Society, HRI, human-robot interaction

Open Roboethics Initiative is a roboethics thinktank concerned with studying robotics-related design and policy issues.

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