Humans sense a collaborating robot as part of their ‘extended’ body

Humans sense a collaborating robot as part of their ‘extended’ body

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their body schema, particularly when it comes to carrying out a task together, like slicing a bar of soap.