Underlying the research is the notion that people will be socially more at ease interacting with robots that seem 'believable' — we will feel queasy shaking hands if the touch is wrong.

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flack for his handshaking skills recently after a few highly-televised and poorly-executed handshakes left the internet wondering why Trump is so bad at shaking hands. Couple the poor handshaking ...

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