The use of robots and in particular next-generation robots in the production of goods and services is increasing. What impact robots are having on people’s quality of life, including workers, is as yet under-explored. This paper provides initial findings examining whether fear of robots is correlated with one aspect of quality of life: life satisfaction. After controlling for individual effects and country effects and using both standard ordinary least squares and a linear multilevel regression model, we find fear of robots correlates with lower reported life satisfaction. There are differences in the fear of robots and life satisfaction by age group, by how long countries have been members of the European Union and by whether we control for attitudes towards other things. We call for more research into attitudes towards technology and new technologies in particular, how these impact on current life satisfaction and other aspects of quality of life and to think more about how technological change and people’s attitudes towards these can be more aligned.

在商品和服务的生产中，越来越多地使用机器人，尤其是下一代机器人。机器人对包括工人在内的人们的生活质量的影响尚未得到充分的研究。本文提供了初步的发现，以检验对机器人的恐惧是否与生活质量的一个方面相关：生活满意度。在控制了个人影响和国家影响并使用标准的普通最小二乘法和线性多级回归模型后，我们发现对机器人的恐惧与较低的报告生活满意度相关。对机器人的恐惧和对生活的满意程度在年龄段，国家成为欧盟成员已有多长时间以及我们是否控制对其他事物的态度方面存在差异。