Would YOU turn off a robot begging for its life? Study warns humans can be manipulated by bots

While it might not always be easy to pull the plug on your electronics, doing so is rarely a case of moral dilemma. But, powering down might be a lot more difficult if your devices were begging you not to do it. A new study explores the ways in which social robots can manipulate their owners by pulling on our heartstrings. When robots protested, shouting things such as'No! Please do not switch me off' and implying they were afraid of the dark, participants hesitated and sometimes even refused to turn them off.