Previous research suggests that the increased attribution of agency to robots may be linked to negative attitudes toward robots. If robots are truly expected to assume various roles in our social environment, it is necessary to further explore how increasing agency, for example through increasing levels of autonomy, affects attitudes toward them. This study investigates the role of perceived control as a moderator explaining attitudes toward attributed agency in a collaboration context. Austrian-based participants (\(\hbox {N}=102\)) watched a video of a robot collaborating with a person to assemble a mixer—the robot was presented as either agentic and capable of proactively collaborating with the human or non-agentic and only capable of following human commands. The results show that attributing high levels of agency to robots is associated with negative attitudes toward them when individuals perceive low control during the collaboration.

先前的研究表明，代理商对机器人的归属增加可能与对机器人的消极态度有关。如果确实希望机器人在我们的社会环境中担当各种角色，则有必要进一步探讨增加代理权（例如通过增加自治程度）如何影响人们对机器人的态度。这项研究调查了感知控制作为主持人在协作环境中解释对归因代理的态度的作用。来自奥地利的参与者（\（\ hbox {N} = 102 \））观看了一个机器人与人合作组装搅拌器的视频，该机器人被展示为具有代理能力，并且能够与人类或非代理人积极协作，并且只能遵循人类命令。结果表明，当个人在协作过程中感到控制力低下时，将高水平的代理商归因于机器人与对机器人的消极态度有关。