Scientists warn that it could have safety implications.
Researchers discovered that humans pay less attention to their work when they think robots have already checked it.
Scientists at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany investigated whether humans"social loaf" when they work with robots.“Working together can motivate people to perform well, but it can also lead to a loss of motivation because the individual contribution is not as visible. They provided images of circuit boards to 42 participants. The circuit boards were blurred, and the sharpened images could only be viewed by holding a mouse tool over them.Half of the participants were told that they were working on circuit boards that had been inspected by a robot called Panda.
The researchers said that, at first sight, it looked as if the presence of Panda had made no difference - there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of time spent inspecting the circuit boards and the area searched. They said that could reflect a ‘looking but not seeing’ effect, where people get used to relying on something and engage with it less mentally.
The team, whose findings were published in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI, warned that it could have safety implications.
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