Charting the Uncanny Valley: Explanations. Part 7 of 7

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).

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

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

all of the robots are at the bottom of the valley..
if the valley proves their creepiness why are they still being made?!

asimo is cute... we could use more like him.

I really enjoyed this series. It was very informative and seems as though its references to social psychology (TMT) and neuroscience (mirror neurons) were really spot-on. I disagree with the comments that the speaker was dull. I thought he was quite capable.

I find the robot at 0:37 a work in progress. But my daughter will think aliens will pop out of the skin any moment. Even Santa Clause looks scary to her.

Every single image in this video is in the valley.

It's not his fault you teach linguistics.

I agree that he'd be a poor presentor in an academic context. However, here, appropriating the academic genre makes him seem intellectual, credible, rational
(in a space that is usually sensational, incredible...etc).