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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning DailyNews Daily News-A new study on Robotics is now availab le. According to news reporting originatingin Beijing, People's Republic of Chi na, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "We conducted this studyto investig ate the influence of robot anthropomorphism on consumers' attitudes toward resta urants andservice providers, focusing on the moderating effects of robot social roles and consumer autonomy. Theresults of Study 1 revealed that anthropomorph ic robots fostered more positive attitudes toward restaurantsand service robots than non-anthropomorphic robots when consumers viewed restaurant advertisements ."Financial support for this research came from National Natural Science Foundatio n of China (NSFC).