Humans can reduce effort by collaborating with robots
Humans and robots often work together to assemble products Age Photo Stock/Alamy People tend to cut corners when working as a team, or to let trusted colleagues Researchers at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany have discovered that people tend to cut corners when working as a team, or to let trusted colleagues cut corners. The experiment was designed to test whether humans put in less effort when they thought their personal contributions to a task would go unnoticed.
Published : 2 years ago by admin in Science
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. …