Millennials likely to use robots to avoid human interaction at work

Millennials are used to talking to smart speakers, picking up groceries from a delivery droid and using robots to clean their floors. It turns out this tendency to be comfortable around robots has transferred to the workplace. A team of researchers has found that millennials are more likely to use robots as a means of avoiding human interaction at work. Millennials are used to talking to smart speakers and interacting with robots. For the study, which was commissioned by content solutions company ABBYY, researchers asked 1,200 employees in the UK how they felt about human interaction.