How Do Factory Workers Bond With Tutor Robots?

Josh Gruenstein says Tutor Intelligence gives every robot a name so the factory worker who spends the day with it can build a relationship with it. A factory manager treats a working robot as a piece of equipment. The buyer is the COO or the general manager, and the user is the factory worker. Tutor Intelligence does not automate 100% of a factory. It automates some jobs in a factory or a warehouse, so the worker and the robot still share the floor.

Human-robot interaction research supplies the practical tricks, and naming is one of them. On a repeat order, the customer names the new robots and gets a higher sense of ownership. People have named robots after their kids, a favorite football player, and a favorite pop star. The robot helps. A line worker does less backbreaking work and can move into a higher position, and the facilities cannot hire. A factory manager's job becomes a thousand times easier.

Tutor Intelligence started with hurricane naming, then went through the alphabet too many times to keep track. Technicians who build the robots in the United States now pick whatever name brings them joy.