Robot guard powerless to stop food thieves

摘要

If people stealing food right under the eyes of a bot is anything to go by, RoboCop is still a long way off. In a twist on a psychology experiment in which seeing a picture of eyes makes people behave more honestly, Guy Hoffman at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his colleagues put a robot with moving eyes in a student common room to guard a table of snack food labelled with a reserved sign.