"Robots would prefer you to be rude" and "How Not to Order Water from a Robot Waiter" – those were the headlines of two recent articles about new research on human-machine interaction from Colorado School of Mines and Tufts University. IEEE Spectrum and The Next Web covered the findings, which were presented at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction in March. For the study, researchers from the Mines MIRROR Lab, led by Computer Science Assistant Professor Tom Williams, and Tuft's Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory recruited 49 people to interact with a robot in a ....