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When humans interact with a humanoid robot, they subconsciously mimic and synchronize with its body language - just as with other humans

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Fig 1. Experimental setup. (a) the NAO robot, (b) NAO Interacting with a human subject.

image: Fig 1. Experimental setup. (a) the NAO robot, (b) NAO Interacting with a human subject. view more 

Credit: Mostafaoui et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

When humans interact with a humanoid robot, they subconsciously mimic and synchronize with its body language - just as with other humans

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261174  

Article Title: Human unintentional and intentional interpersonal coordination in interaction with a humanoid robot

Author Countries: France, U.S.A.

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.


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