Although robots are quickly becoming ubiquitous in farms, factories, warehouses, hospitals, and even city streets, some developers of service robotics have assumed that older adults would be hostile to new technologies, particularly humanoid robots.
However, a study by psychologists at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, suggests that older people are far less anxious and hostile regarding such robots than previously thought.
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