Uncanny valley
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| - | The '''uncanny valley''' is a hypothesis regarding the field of [[robotics]]. The theory holds that when [[robot]]s and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of [[wikt:revulsion|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. | + | The '''uncanny valley''' is a hypothesis regarding the field of [[robotics]]. The theory holds that when [[robot]]s and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of [[revulsion|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. |
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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. 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.
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See also
- Affective computing
- Android science
- Ball-jointed doll
- Bunraku
- Frankenstein complex
- Gynoid
- Postmodernism
- RealDoll
- Reborn doll
- Virtual Woman
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