Moral Interaction with Robots: an Example with a Tour Guide Robot

Fig. 1 shows one such scene. A group of family accepted a tour. While the robot explained a shop at a stop (Fig. 1-a), a child (not part of the tour) noticed the robot and approached it from its right (Fig. 1-b). Since she remained in front of it, the robot was not able to move to the next location (Fig. 1c). The family briefly watched and then left (Fig. 1-d). Since the new girl did not follow the tour, it became empty. The tour failed.