{"id":217186,"date":"2025-07-04T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/playing-games-with-robots-makes-people-see-them-as-more-humanlike"},"modified":"2025-07-04T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:03:56","slug":"playing-games-with-robots-makes-people-see-them-as-more-humanlike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/playing-games-with-robots-makes-people-see-them-as-more-humanlike","title":{"rendered":"Playing games with robots makes people see them as more humanlike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/playing-games-with-robots-makes-people-see-them-as-more-humanlike.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become\u2014according to new research from the University of East Anglia, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.apa.org\/doi\/10.1037\/xhp0001351\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.<\/p>\n<p>It may sound like a scene from Blade Runner, but psychologists have been investigating exactly what makes <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> interactions feel more human.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reveals that playing games with robots to \u201cbreak the ice\u201d can help bring out their human side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become\u2014according to new research from the University of East Anglia, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. It may sound like a scene from Blade Runner, but psychologists have been investigating exactly what makes robot interactions feel more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}