Many of these robots are ... carried out a study specifically exploring the extent to which humans perceive a humanoid robot's mind differently based on whether it has eyes or not.

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"There are robots that are getting close, but they are extremely expensive." In particular, eye contact ... "Especially averting the gaze turned out to be very important," explains Mishra.

In the study "The Effect of Eyes on the Perception of Humanoid Robots' Mind" (PDF), which was published as a preprint in SSRN, scientists from the University of Bremen wanted to find out whether ...