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The Uncanny Valley: When Robots Are Too Human
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We are not 100% sure what Mori meant by some of the words he chose when he defined the concept of the Uncanny Valley, which refers to the discomfort people feel when robots or computer-generated humans look too real. The translation of one of them, Bukimi, was originally meant as eerie, but it ended up defining what we all know today as the Uncanny Valley.

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