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Grace’s launch comes as the global impact of the coronavirus has made the need for humanoid robots urgent, said Kim Min-Sun, a communicology professor at the University of Hawaii.

“When something is part of a routine or normative, what happens is, it loses much of its significance,” said Amy Ebesu Hubbard, the department chair of communicology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who has studied apologies.