Do you find any one of the three robots more likable than the others? your choice might just reveal something about your personality type, or about your current mood.
Kerstin Dautenhahn and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire asked volunteers to watch videos of the robots as they answered the door for an owner who had missed the bell. The volunteers were then asked to fill out a questionnaire rating the likeability of each robot, and to complete a simple personality test.
Volunteers tended to prefer the Humanoid robot while "introverts and participants with lower emotional stability" warmed to the two more mechanical robots slightly more.
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