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title: Why People Are Weirded Out By Touching Robot Butts — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/why-people-are-weirded-out-by-touching-robot-butts/
date: 2016-04-06
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# Why People Are Weirded Out By Touching Robot Butts

Stanford University has an answer for a question you probably never thought to ask: Nope. Humans aren’t too keen on touching robot butts.
Researchers wanted to learn more about the physical interaction between humans and robots, so they asked participants to follow a simple set of prompts given by a humanoid robot.