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Disturbingly Real Replicants from Hanson Robotics

• Bjoern 17y ago
  I find the title "disturbingly" stupid. Why should real-looking faces be disturbing? http://www.madametussauds.com/London/ http://www.madametussauds.com/London/
  • ericb 17y ago
    > Why should real-looking faces be disturbing? It is actually a documented and fairly fascinating phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
  • rms 17y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
  • lallysingh 17y ago
    So you won't notice them until they're close enough to eat you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713673 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713673 as some sort of pseudocannibal terminator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(character) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(character) (pseudo as terminators aren't people, so it's not really cannibalism).
• Zaak 17y ago
  When they're not moving, they look very real. As soon as they start moving, they look terribly fake.