Frontier robot teams that worked for the manufacturing and defense industries were often based in remote locations far removed from daily social life. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, human-robot teams increasingly co-exist, co-provide and co-form social interactions in servicescapes. Even though robots can function with a significant degree of autonomy in their perception, thinking, and action thanks to recent breakthroughs (Schepers et al., 2022), many still need humans to supplement and maintain them (Choi et al., 2020; Schepers & Streukens, 2022). Recent conceptual works in the service sector have noted the dependency between robots and workers as a topic of growing attention (de Keyser et al., 2019).