This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.

Part A
What is the main claim expressed in the audio clip?

Responses

Socially assistive robots are better companions than most human caretakers.
Socially assistive robots are better companions than most human caretakers.

Socially assistive robots can motivate and encourage people to make healthy choices.
Socially assistive robots can motivate and encourage people to make healthy choices.

There are many questions to be answered before we can safely use socially assistive robots.
There are many questions to be answered before we can safely use socially assistive robots.

There are hardwired social cues within humans that attract them to socially assistive robots.
There are hardwired social cues within humans that attract them to socially assistive robots.
Question 2
Part B
Which excerpt from the audio clip is an example used to support the answer to Part A?
Responses

Socially assistive robotics is again about creating physical robots that interact with people without doing physical work. (00:23–00:30)
Socially assistive robotics is again about creating physical robots that interact with people without doing physical work. (00:23–00:30)

. . . robots that interact with children . . . by . . . acting in a social way . . . get higher levels of social behavior and retention of social skills. . . . (00:34–00:58)
. . . robots that interact with children . . . by . . . acting in a social way . . . get higher levels of social behavior and retention of social skills. . . . (00:34–00:58)

stroke patients . . . need to do activities of daily life. . . . It's much easier to compensate with the other part of the body which then results in people not recovering . . . (01:05–01:20)
stroke patients . . . need to do activities of daily life. . . . It's much easier to compensate with the other part of the body which then results in people not recovering . . . (01:05–01:20)

. . . once we start talking about creating machines . . . in our social context . . . a lot of questions come up about the form and the behavior of those machines . . . (01:40–01:50)