A study conducted by scientists at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany has found that employees are less efficient when working with robots compared to working on their own or with a group of people. The researchers provided 42 employees with images of circuit boards that were intentionally blurred. Only when participants hovered a mouse tool over the images could they view them in sharp detail. Half of the participants were informed that the circuit they were working on had already been inspected by a robot.
After the examination, the participants were asked to rate their own efforts, the level of responsibility they felt, and their overall performance. The results showed that participants who worked with the robot were catching fewer defects later in the task, assuming that the robot had already identified them. Additionally, the study found that when working in a team, participants were more diligent compared to when working with a robot.
Senior author of the study, Dr. Linda Onnasch, stated that it is difficult to determine whether the visual information is being processed adequately at a mental level. The researchers also discovered that fewer quality errors occurred when participants worked in a team as opposed to with a robot. Dr. Onnasch explained that in longer shifts and routine tasks with little performance-monitoring and feedback, motivation tends to diminish.
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2023-10-18 09:57:30
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