Shane Saunderson, a roboticist at the University of Toronto.

多伦多大学的机器人专家谢恩·桑德森表示。

Saunderson recalls a study in which engineers had designed a library robot.

桑德森回忆起一项研究，在这项研究中，工程师们设计了一个图书馆机器人。

To figure out how to make robots more influential, Saunderson set up a series of tasks.

为了弄清楚如何让机器人更有影响力，桑德森设置了一系列任务。

And what Saunderson found was that Pepper had better luck at getting people to change their response when acting as a fellow test-taker, not as a leader.

桑德森发现，如果佩珀是作为一个测试对象，而不是作为一个测试者，那么他在让人们改变反应方面的运气会更好。