Robert: Robots need a Myers-Briggs type

In a recent interview on the Internet of Things podcast, Associate Professor of Information Lionel Robert speaks to the personality characteristics he believes will work for different robots based on their form factors, their jobs and the people they work with. He also addresses the ethics of making robots too trustworthy. 

When people are working with robots, if you don’t find a way to replace or supplement or substitute those social interactions they had with their coworker humans, then people are going to leave. So that means you have to design robots to be very social, you have to consider the personality of the human and the robot and try to find ways to design robots with a personality that will encourage people to trust them, to enjoy interacting with them.

Listen to Internet of Things Episode 335: Robots need a Myers-Briggs type in full.