Do people see robots as having race? New studies clash as humanoids enter the real world
By Deni Ellis Béchard••Scientific American
As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the research is divided on whether those biases persist outside the lab and in real-world interactions
When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people makin…