Why do we bond with 'others'? Could one of the factors be simply a matter of sharing space, time and experiences? Check out our in-the-wild study with couch-surfing robots, and also learn how it relates to the 'intentional stance'. Lead researcher Joost Mollen (Leiden University, now at TU Delft), joint work with Kate Darling (MIT Media Lab). #robot #hri #thri #liacs https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563702