Question in-man
In many cultures, a handshake can create trust between people. Engineer João Avelino and his team are designing a robot to shake hands with a human in order to improve human-robot interactions. The robot hand adjusts its movements and pressure to better imitate the feel of a human hand. The researchers want the robot’s handshake to feel realistic because blank
Which choice most logically completes the text?
lifelike handshakes may make people more comfortable interacting with robots.
it’s easier to program a robot to perform handshakes than it is to program a robot to perform some other types of greetings.
people are less likely to interact with robots that don’t look like humans.
the robot in the researchers’ study may have uses other than interacting with humans.
In many cultures, a handshake can create trust between people. Engineer João Avelino and his team
Easy-difficulty · SAT Reading & Writing · Inferences — Cause-and-effect inferences. Read the question above, select your answer, and check the full explanation below to understand exactly why the correct choice works.
Answer explanation
Choice A is the best answer. The text says that handshakes create trust, and that the engineers’ goal is to “improve human-robot interactions.” This suggests that they want the robot’s handshake to feel real because they want humans to trust the robot.
Choice B is incorrect. This inference isn’t supported. The text never discusses any other types of greetings, so there is no basis to make this inference. Choice C is incorrect. This inference isn’t supported. The text never discusses the appearance of this robot or any other robots, so there is no basis to make this inference. Choice D is incorrect. This inference isn’t supported. The text never discusses any uses for the robot other than interacting with humans, so there is no basis to make this inference.
More Inferences practice questions
- Researchers wanted to study how consumers’ reactions to an ad may be affected by
- Off-off-Broadway theaters emerged in the late 1950s as a rebellion against mainstream
- In documents called judicial opinions, judges explain the reasoning behind their legal
- An analysis by Alain Elayi and colleagues of coins minted in Sidon in the
- The domestic sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas ) descends from a wild animal native
- The following text is from Anton Chekhov’s 1898 short story “Ionitch”
- For its 1974 work Instant Mural , the Chicano art collective Asco taped members
- Dutch painters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often showed tables filled with
Browse all Information and Ideas practice questions or return to the full SAT question bank.