Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter

malachiorion writes "Are humanoid bots and CGI characters still crawling their way out of the Uncanny Valley? Maybe, but maybe it doesn't matter. Here's a cold, hard look at a popular robotics theory that might have no legs to stand on, android or otherwise. It's everything that seems wrong and irrelevant about the Uncanny Valley that I wasn't able to fit into this month's Popular Mechanics cover story on social bots."

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Re:yeah, but why humanoid robots in the first plac

[The Wild Norseman]

I'm sure you can imagine a humanoid robot being a bit more comfortable to be around than something out of the terminator series at the doctor's office as an example.

"What? My appointment with doctor Smith isn't until four o'clock?

I'll be back."

Re:yeah, but why humanoid robots in the first plac

[ElectricTurtle]

Mega-Maid...
She's gone from suck to blow!

Re:yeah, but why humanoid robots in the first plac

[0100010001010011]

Dr. Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your illness and I realized that it's not actually a bacteria. Every bacteria on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but your illness do not. It moves to an area and it multiplies and multiplies until every natural resource is consumed and the only way it can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. You have a disease, a cancer. You're a plague and I will find you the cure.

Pimping your article on Slashdot

[icebike]

1) write thin article for a dying rag
2) pimp it on slashdot
3) ????
4) Profit.