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Originally Posted by Martian
These things are a classic example of the uncanny valley. They're too lifelike, without being real (or a close enough facsimile that we can't tell the difference). If they weren't so lifelike they'd do well, but being so close but off by a little bit is just, well, creepy.
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I was watching some show about robots maybe two or three months ago, and they mentioned this too. They showed some robots with eerily human-like faces, which looked creepy as hell, and then some funnier-looking robot, which was much more pleasant to look at. And they also mentioned this factor that you talked about. Interesting stuff.