Maximilian Bretschneider
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About
Maximilian Bretschneider is a researcher specializing in human-robot interaction, social robotics, and the psychological and legal dimensions of emerging digital technologies. His work centers on what he terms "Embodied Digital Technologies" (EDTs) — a framework encompassing social robots, telepresence systems, and bionic prostheses — exploring how humans perceive, trust, and ultimately accept these entities in everyday and professional environments. Bretschneider's most significant contribution is his development of the Social Perception of Robots Scale (SPRS), a validated measurement instrument designed to systematically assess how people evaluate robots across dimensions such as anthropomorphism, technicality, and trustworthiness. This tool addresses longstanding inconsistencies in prior research and provides a rigorous foundation for future human-robot interaction studies. His broader body of work, which has accumulated over 70 citations since 2021, investigates how social and legal perceptions shape the acceptance of EDTs as legitimate "co-workers" in hybrid human-machine societies. What makes Bretschneider's research particularly compelling is its interdisciplinary reach — bridging social psychology, law, and robotics engineering. For students and researchers navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of automation and AI integration, his findings offer essential empirical grounding for understanding the human side of technological adoption.
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