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The Uncanny Valley (1970)
- skmurphy 12y agoIEEE Spectrum commissioned an authorized translation of the original article and interviewed Masahiro Mori in June 2012 in http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/an-uncanny-mind-masahiro-mori-on-the-uncanny-valley http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/an-unc... Mori's insight was that people would react with revulsion to humanlike robots, whose appearance resembled, but did not quite replicate, that of a real human. He called this phenomenon bukimi no tani (the term "uncanny valley" first appeared in the 1978 book Robots: Fact, Fiction, and Prediction, written by Jasia Reichardt).