“Do robots have a race problem?
Not all scholars agree.”

[Article] As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the research is divided on whether those biases persist outside the lab and in real-world interactions.

Lionel Obadia, member of AS3 “Decision, learning and social interaction“, as well as international scholars in robotics have been interviewed about this topic.

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Access to the article of the journal Scientific American, 8 April 2026

Access to the dedicated paper in Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 5 February 2026