Trust “in the field”: reflections on a real-world lab deploying social robots in childcare settings

Trust is highly relevant in human-robot interaction, particularly when it takes place in complex and dynamic social environments. Here, we give an overview of our research within the Real-World Lab Robotics-AI, an inter- and transdisciplinary research effort in which robots are embedded in society in longterm field research. We focus on two particularly challenging research sites, a kindergarten and an inclusive daycare, and reflect upon implications for researching and designing for trust in robots in this context.