Humans and robots often work together to assemble products
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People tend to cut corners when working as a team, or to let trusted colleagues cut corners, a phenomenon known as social loafing. Now, researchers have discovered that the same thing happens when humans collaborate with robots.
dietlind helen simek Researchers at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany designed an experiment to test whether humans put in less effort when they thought their personal contributions to a task would go unnoticed. …
Source: www.newscientist.com
