So here's the lab, and we've got a lot of students working here today.

We've got Zach and Marco.

Hi.

Brittany.

(Abby) There are certain movements that we wanted our robot to do-- yes and no.

(female electronic voice) Yes.

(Abby) So that was the yes for the soft-spoken robot.

(Izzie) Aw.

(robot) Yes.

(Abby) This is the yes for the more outgoing robot.

So this is our sad for our outgoing robot.

(female electronic voice) You win.

I lose again.

(Anna) It's going to do a transition down.

And then you pitch forward.

Ready?

(man) I'm sorry about this.

(Robin) Well, it started to look sad.

(SciGirls chuckle) Yeah.

Slightly.

(Abby) With robots you definitely hit some bumps.

It's kind of like a computer.

Sometimes it's going to shut down, and you're just like why won't you work with me?!

(Lindsey) Whenever problems come up, I think we just have to keep going forward and move on to something else and come back to it later, so that we can figure out the problem then.

(man) It went from green to red.

What does red on that mean?

(2nd man) I don't think it's good.

(Izzie) It's a good thing the SciGirls are here!

(Abby) Hey guys, let's hang up some signs so people know where to go.

(Ashley) Got some tape.

Today is test day, we're going to test out how people and robots interact with each other.

(Robin) We're going to move the robot in.

So here's our mission control.

(Abby) Mission control has a big TV with our data cam.

We have our robot cam, the computer that controls the voice of the robot, and we have the computer that controls the behaviors of the robot.

(Robin) Let's try it like this.

Can you at least see the board now?

(SciGirls) Yeah, we can see it.

We're just trying to hustle and get everything ready for our friends.

Hi.

Hello.

(man) ...see the problem; I think there's a crack.

(Abby) There are a few bugs in the robot.

There's something going wrong.

It's jamming in the motions.

Instead of 12 people, which we originally thought of, we have 14.

Hey guys, can I have your attention up here?

Okay, we're going to split you all up into 2 groups just for testing, and so we're going to have you pick out of here to see if you're group 1 or group 2.

They've been waiting for around 45 minutes, so we really need to get it up-and-running so we can start the interactions.

♪ ♪ Don't say technical difficulties or anything like that.

I'm just going to say thanks for waiting and being so patient.

Sorry for the delay.

Yeah, the robot, and we're about to start in 10 minutes.

We're going to start in the next 10 minutes.

We're going to start pretty soon because we don't want them to have the time because they're going to be like, oh my gosh, they're even more late than they said.

Let's just go in there and... Yeah, say what we need to say.

Thank you all for being so patient and waiting, and we should start sometime in the next 10 minutes.

Pretty soon, so just hold on, and we're about to start.

Hopefully the bugs will be worked out.

I'm hoping that they will, maybe.

Yeah.

(Izzie) Yeah, bugs, robots-- they don't go together.

(Robin) Can you hear us now?

Robin just gave us some bad news.

We are not going to be able to do our movements.

Even though our behaviors and stuff really can't go, we still have our voice.

So our robot will still talk to the person.

We are having technical difficulties with the robot, nothing is working, and we can't even be in another room.

(Robin) We lost Skype again?

We have to be in the testing room with our friends.

I'll do the computer.

And it was just like how are we going to do this?

So we moved some desks together, stuck some chairs in front of the desks, and we hid, and it went pretty good from there.

(Izzie) SciGirls to the rescue!

You can come stand over here by the whiteboard.

(Anna) Our friends had already been waiting for 2 hours, so Abby came up with the brilliant idea; how about we do them in a few groups?

We already had a group 1 and group 2 to test the reserved and the outgoing.

We split them up into pairs.

It took half the time, so it really cut down on our time issue.

(female electronic robot's voice) Will you draw a ticktacktoe game and sign the box on the dry erase board?

You will be "X's" and I will be "O's."

Go ahead and go.

(Anna) To see how our friends interact with the robot, it was a little weird at first because they were kind of freaked out, they didn't know what to do.

They all had weird expressions on their face.

(robot) Good game, it was nice to meet you.

Please erase the ticktacktoe board and head back through the door.

Bye!

Bye.

♪ ♪ What you'll do-- at the top it says rate how well the following words fit the robot.

You're either going to check "not at all," or "extremely."

If it was neither of those, check one of the boxes in the middle.

(robot) Good game.

It was nice to meet you.

Please erase the ticktacktoe board and head back through the door.

Bye.

(Izzie) Bye-bye Survivor Buddy!

Nice playin' ticktacktoe with ya.

(Abby) To handle whenever you have a difficulty with a robot is find what's wrong with it, and let's think of another way to go.

Hey guys, we are all finished!

(Abby) These are all for you.

(man) Oh thank you.