The Uncanny Valley [From the Field]

Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 98 - 100
Published: Jun 6, 2012
Abstract
More than 40 years ago, Masahiro Mori, a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, wrote an essay [1] on how he envisioned people's reactions to robots that looked and acted almost like a 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...
Paper Details
Title
The Uncanny Valley [From the Field]
Published Date
Jun 6, 2012
Volume
19
Issue
2
Pages
98 - 100
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