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Submitted by Kittenman on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @07:56PM

Kittenman writes "The BBC magazine pages have an article on human trust of robots. The article cites a poll (done on facebook so certainly well-sourced) over the 'best face' design for a robot that would be trusted. But we still distrust them — because (tfa states) they look unwell (or like corpses) and do not behave as expected.

So would you trust a robot? How about one with the "trusting face"?"
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Precious (Score:2)

by tepples (727027) writes:

Rotate the eyes a little bit and it's not unlike the face of a Precious Moments figurine.
It's not about the robot. (Score:2)

by mhajicek (1582795) writes:

It's about trusting the programmer(s).

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Precious (Score:2)

It's not about the robot. (Score:2)