Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, Japan and his twin robot

When robots become too real, our approval takes a plunge into ¨The Uncanny Valley¨

Coined by robotics professor Masahiro Mori, ¨The Uncanny Valley¨ is a phenomenon that describes our aversion to robots and or artificial beings after they reach a certain level of human likeness.  Many people such as Sigmund Freud and Ernst Jentsch have explored the concept of ¨the uncanny¨
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