Sunday, November 18, 2007
Uncanny Valley
This is a hypothesis on why sometimes we are scared by human-like robots. It is first devised by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. Essentially he said that we are repulsed by the blurred line between a machine and a human. If the machine is nothing like human, we accept it as a wonderful scientific invention. We also feel positive towards it if it looks and acts extremely like a human. However, if it is resembles a human but have some machine-like actions, it incurs a repulsive feeling in us. Just imagine a human looking robot that has a unnatural smile, it scares people.
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2 comments:
The Uncanny Valley by Dave Bryant
http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/nonfiction/uncanny-valley.html
http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/valley.html
The last sentence should be "Just imagine a human looking robot that has an unnatural smile; it scares people."
sorry about that
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