Description
This survey looks into public attitudes towards robots. While robotics is a key technology for Europe’s future competitiveness, public perceptions of robots are, however, often influenced by misconceptions and fears. In order to improve the image of robots and to increase public acceptance, it is necessary to better understand public opinion about this technology.
To this end, familiarity, personal experiences with robots and more specific attitudes towards robots are analysed. The survey also examines various application areas for robots and presents the areas where EU citizens believe robots should be used as a priority or banned. Furthermore, the survey studies the acceptance of certain tasks done by robots.
The results by volumes are distributed as follows:
- Volume A: Countries
- Volume AA: Groups of countries
- Volume A' (AP): Trends
- Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
- Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
- Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
- Volume C: Country/socio-demographics
Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link to OP_VolumeAAEB771INFSOrobots20120320.zip | ZIP | Open resource | |
| Link to OP_VolumeAPEB771INFSOrobots20120319.zip | ZIP | Open resource | |
| Link to OP_VolumeBEB771INFSOrobots20120320.zip | ZIP | Open resource | |
| Link to OP_VolumesCEB771INFSOrobotsxls20120322.zip | ZIP | Open resource | |
| Link to OP_VolumeAEB771INFSOrobots20120320.zip | ZIP | Open resource |