The investigation of emerging adults' expectations of development of the next generation of robots is a fundamental challenge to narrow the gap between expectations and real technological advances, which can potentially impact the effectiveness of future interactions between humans and robots. Furthermore, the literature highlights the important role played by negative attitudes toward robots in setting people's expectations. To better explore these expectations, we administered the Scale for Robotic Needs and performed a latent profile analysis to describe different expectation profiles about the development of future robots. The profiles identified through this methodology can be placed along a continuum of robots' humanization: from a group that desires mainly the technical features to a group that imagines a humanized robot in the future. Finally, the analysis of emerging adults' knowledge about robots and their negative attitudes toward robots allowed us to understand how these affect their expectations.

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成人对下一代机器人的期望：通过潜在特征分析探索机器人需求

对新兴成年人对下一代机器人发展的期望的调查是缩小期望与实际技术进步之间差距的一项根本挑战，这可能会影响人与机器人之间未来交互的有效性。此外，文献强调了对机器人的消极态度在设定人们的期望中所起的重要作用。为了更好地探索这些期望，我们管理了机器人需求量表，并进行了潜伏性分析，以描述关于未来机器人发展的不同期望性状。通过这种方法确定的配置文件可以放在机器人人性化的整个过程中：从主要需要技术特征的团队到想象未来的人性化机器人的团队。最后，对新兴成年人对机器人的了解以及他们对机器人的消极态度的分析使我们能够理解这些成年人如何影响他们的期望。