Engineering and Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering, Robotics and automation, Teknik, Elektroteknik och elektronik, Robotik och automation, Other Engineering and Technologies, Annan teknik, Natural Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences, Human Computer Interaction, Naturvetenskap, Data- och informationsvetenskap (Datateknik), Människa-datorinteraktion (Interaktionsdesign)

With robots increasingly succeeding in exhibiting more human-like behaviours, humans may be more likely to ‘forgive’ their errors and continue to trust them as a result of ascribing higher, more human-like intelligence to them. If an integral aspect of successful HRI is to accurately communicate the competence of a robot, it can be argued that the technical success of the robot in exhibiting human-like behaviour can, in some cases, lead to a failure of the interaction by resulting in misperceived human-like competence. We highlight this through the example of speech in robots, and discuss the implications of failures and their role in HRI design.