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The uncanny valley hypothesis holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness. It was introduced by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970, and has been linked... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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    Uncanny valley

    The uncanny valley is a hypothesis regarding the field of robotics. The theory holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers.
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    Uncanny Valley (album)

    Uncanny Valley is the second full length album by the Raleigh, NC-based rock band Birds of Avalon. The album was released by Volcom Entertainment on June 23, 2009.
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    Uncanny

    The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange. ... Uncanny valley
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    Index of Japan-related articles (U–V)

    This page lists Japan-related articles with romanized titles beginning with the letters U and V. ... Uncanny valley
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    Index of Japan-related articles (U-V)

    This page lists Japan-related articles with romanized titles beginning with the letters U and V. ... Uncanny valley
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    Anthropopathy

    Anthropopathy (Greek ανθρωπος, anthropos, "human", παθος, pathos, "suffering") is the attribution of human emotion to a non-human being, generally a god. ... Uncanny valley
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    Masahiro Mori

    In 1970, Mori published "Bukimi No Tani" (不気味の谷 The Uncanny Valley) in Energy. ... Bukimi no tani the uncanny valley.
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    HUBO

    HUBO (휴보 KHR-3) is a walking humanoid robot, head mounted on a life-size walking bipedal frame, developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and released on January 6, 2005. ... Uncanny valley
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    Android science

    Android science is an interdisciplinary framework for studying human interaction and cognition based on the premise that a very humanlike robot (that is, an android) can elicit human-directed social responses in human beings. ... Uncanny valley
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    Project Aiko

    Project Aiko (Japanese: 愛子) is Canada's first functional female android and was developed by Le Trung, a chemist graduate from York University. ... Uncanny valley

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