HUMANS MORE COMFORTABLE DEALING WITH A FEMALE ROBOT

A Washington State University researcher has found that people respond better to robots which have “female” characteristics instead of male ones. In a survey of 170 people, participants were asked to interact with robots with both male and female characteristics or features. Subjects had a noticeable preference for interacting with female robots in a customer service setting like a hotel. Study author Soobin Seo, an assistant professor of hospitality management, says that people have a tendency to feel more comfort in being cared for by females because of existing gender stereotyping about service roles. She says that “gender stereotype appears to transfer to robot interactions, and it is more amplified when the robots are more human like.”
* The robot sex doll industry is way ahead of you, lady.
* Hospitality management … service setting like a hotel … So this is a heads-up to all you hotel workers that they’re almost done working on your replacements.
* I don’t know about this. I hate when that scolding lady voice at the supermarket self-checkout says, “MOVE YOUR… BANANAS… TO THE BAGGING AREA!” Lay off! Where else am I going to move them to, lady?
* I think what this is leading to is, humans would all be more tolerant of the eventual robot takeover if they were all Terminatrixes.
* (In a sweet falsetto voice) “I’ll be BAAAAaaack!!!”