Abstract

This study was looking to find what the general public thought about how they would want the form of a humanoid robot to appear physically and that robot’s general physical capability. In much of the available research, there was little if any information on polling people for what they wanted a humanoid robot to appear as physically before development. There are dozens of humanoid robots with vastly different size, colors, levels of realistic appearance, and physical capability (Raju et al. 2020). There are many studies about how people feel about the physical appearance of humanoid robots (Kanda et al.). There are studies on how people feel about specific robots (Mutlu et al. 2006). There was extremely minimal information on robots being designed from general polling of people before development occurred. A survey was created to ask people what a group of survey takers would desire a humanoid robot to look like and its general physical capability. The survey contains responses from 170 people. The people range from 18 to over 65. The purpose of this study was to get the general idea of what people wanted a humanoid robot to physically appear as regardless of other demographic factors. The survey also asked about how much physical capability that theoretical robot would have in their interactions with people and the general knowledge of humanoid robotics the survey taker possessed. The final results showed some interesting and distinct trends.