On the mechanical, cognitive and sociable facets of human compliance and their robotic counterparts

While robotics has focused primarily on modeling the first two, we here discuss the importance to consider also the social dimension that compliance takes in human-human interactions and how this can be extended to human-robot interactions. We discuss situations in which requesting that the human complies to the machine may be advantageous, and not the converse. We conclude with a list of open ethical and legal issues that may arise from developing actively non-compliant machines.