ABSTRACT
Of course, such robots will not only have to be regarded as trustworthy to humans, but they will also have to be accepted by humans, an even more complex idea than trustworthiness. We do not set out to answer all the very many complex and partially understood issues here, but it is, at least, clear that to be accepted, they will have to be somehow emotionally compatible with us in their human-robot interactions, an idea coined neatly by the word affective, which is a part of the title of this chapter. Much of what is discussed in the body of this chapter is, either implicitly or explicitly, concerned with both trustworthiness and acceptance of robots working in the human’s domain. This stands in stark contrast to the robot’s historical domain of automated industrial processing and manufacture, in which the human is normally explicitly prohibited from any direct working partnership.
