https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230314205344.htm > Researchers from the University of Cambridge carried out a study in a tech consultancy firm using two different robot wellbeing coaches, where 26 employees participated in weekly robot-led wellbeing sessions for four weeks. Although the robots had identical voices, facial expressions, and scripts for the sessions, the robots' physical appearance affected how participants interacted with it. > Participants who did their wellbeing exercises with a toy-like robot said that they felt more of a connection with their 'coach' than participants who worked with a humanoid-like robot. The researchers say that perception of robots is affected by popular culture, where the only limit on what robots can do is the imagination. When faced with a robot in the real world however, it often does not live up to expectations.