As noted, these findings also offer initial evidence that the human mind will use nonverbal cues to predict the trustworthiness of humanoid robots, thereby opening many avenues for increasing the capacity of robots to function as interaction partners capable of building trust and social bonds with humans through either the presence or the absence of specific gestures. In so doing, our findings support the view that robotics technology has now reached a level where its mirroring of human social cues, though imperfect, is nonetheless sufficient to embody the basic components necessary to engage the social mind’s interpretive machinery.