So far the way people respond to robots seems to be heavily influenced by the way the robot looks.

The SPOT robots (the yellow doglike ones) seem to be super popular and well received due to, well, their resemblance to a dog. I have had some interactions with them and I shit you not sometimes people straight up try and give it scritches to see what happens.

When people respond positively like this it likely correlates to people treating it well. People typically dont go out of their way to hurt small cute animals walking around.