“…Thus, to encounter robots that come too close, drop items or stop suddenly starts to close the gap between fiction and reality. These kinds of failures -if mitigated by explanation or recovery procedureshave the potential to make the robot a little more relatable and human-like [9,10,11,12,13,14]. However, studying failures in human-robot interaction requires producing potentially difficult or uncomfortable interactions in which robots fail to behave as expected may seem counterintuitive and unethical.…”