Charting the Uncanny Valley: Explanations. Part 7 of 7

Karl F. MacDorman presents on the uncanny valley at the 2007 NMC Summer Conference (June 6-9, 2007, Indianapolis), hosted by the Indiana University School of Informatics. The talk presents explanations of the uncanny valley, including expectation violation, i terror management, Rozin's theory of disgust,

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• android
• Masahiro
• Mori
• robot
• robotics
• uncanny
• valley

[altoidsours]

I was waiting for the twist ending, that the narrator was a robot. He looks like one.

[CalyxAsgard]

Robot 1: The way she was acting, she looked like she was gonna vomit.

Robot 2: She would only would seem strange if you didn't know she was a human.

[TheRoguesse]

Anyone else cannot stop thinking about John Fowles and De Deukans' Mirabelle? ;)

[vash9252]

that robot looks like tank girl.

[DinoAgent69]

0:45 - What's wrong with it? How about the fact that it is creepy as HELL, and I have no doubt it would kill me and eat my organs?!? Charles Manson looks cuddly compered to it.

[MissMysterics]

I think the most likely answer to 'uncanny valley' is a mixture of violation of expectations and a defence mechanism for avoiding mentally or physically ill individuals.

The problem is is that we instinctively recognise the simulation as a living creature, and when it doesn't act like one, that recognition doesn't change, instead we instinctively assume they are seriously ill.

[Superaries2]

I found it very interesting but i nearly died when the "decapitated" robot moved

[downeymj]

The child robot's eyes are too "sunken".

[journeymanjim]

@altoidsours haha yes i thought exactly the same thing.

[jrushr]

i agree with the death theory. the closer they get to the robots on the screen the creepier they get. i feel more comfortable with a far away shot of them in a similar way that i'd feel comfortable being farther away from a threat of some kind (like a rotting corpse or dangerous animal).

[delfunkster]

i preferred the robot skeleton than the freaky child it turns into...