Robots are fun to play with, but they can be insolent during social interaction with humans if badly programmed, a researcher said on Tuesday. It is important to program robots to change moods by better understanding and adapting to human behavior, especially as robots play a bigger role in assisted living, said Maja Matarić, founding director of the University of Southern California's Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, during a speech at the RoboDevelopment conference on Tuesday in Santa Clara, California.

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