Ok so that’s just one theory.
“Researchers set up a bit of a sting operation, placing a robot in a mall for two weeks, observing how people interacted with it. After children happened upon a humanoid robot in the mall, kids immediately took to abusing it with little or no regard to its feelings.
The researchers wrote some of the behavior they observed their paper Why Do Children Abuse Robots?”
Maybe someone should design a robot safe for when the robot is not being used. This would protect the robot from the kids, the kids from the robot, and society from the damage which could be inflicted by a kid/robot collaboration.
Full article HERE.