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    Forty Years in The Uncanny Valley More than 40 years ago, Masahiro Mori, then a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, wrote an essay on how he envisioned people’s reactions to robots that looked and acted almost human. In particular, he hypothesized that a person’s response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to revulsion as it approached, but failed to attain, a lifelike appearance. This descent into eeriness is known as the uncanny valley. The essay appeared in an obscure Japanese journal called Energy in 1970, and in subsequent years it received almost no attention.  (via The Uncanny Valley - IEEE Spectrum)

    Forty Years in The Uncanny Valley

    More than 40 years ago, Masahiro Mori, then a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, wrote an essay on how he envisioned people’s reactions to robots that looked and acted almost human. In particular, he hypothesized that a person’s response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to revulsion as it approached, but failed to attain, a lifelike appearance. This descent into eeriness is known as the uncanny valley. The essay appeared in an obscure Japanese journal called Energy in 1970, and in subsequent years it received almost no attention. 

    (via The Uncanny Valley - IEEE Spectrum)

     
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      Dear Audiodude, This is a follow up to our conversation the other day.
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      Ahaha. This works with most things too- like dolls. If it is something that looks like nothing a human, we are more...
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      Ah the Uncanny Valley… one of my favorite views. Its always amusing to see people fall down it.
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