Humans are less motivated when working with robots

Robots demoralise their human colleagues leaving them'disheartened' and less motivated, a new study has revealed. Automatons are increasingly replacing people in workplaces where simple jobs can easily be done almost for free by replacing costly staff. Engineers designed a game pitting man vs machine to measure the effect of this process, and found people lost heart the longer the game went on. Humans who played the game against robots for cash prizes became demoralised because they were beaten so badly that they saw themselves as less competent. Humans who played a game against robots for cash prizes became demoralised because they found themselves less competent.