Strategic Companions: Behavioral Evidence of Trust and Reciprocity in Human-Robot Economic Games
We study trust and reciprocity in human-robot interaction using behavioral economic games. In Study $1 (\mathrm{N}=42)$, participants played a three-round trust game both with a human and a LuxAI QT robot, as sender or receiver. Senders invested comparable amounts in human and robot partners, but receivers returned sig...