Why Are Life-Like Robots Creepy? - Instant Egghead #53

Lifelike robots and animations can elicit a response that's somewhere between uncomfortable and creeped out. Scientific American editor Larry Greenemeier explains why.

More to explore:

What Should a Robot Look Like? (Scientific American)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...

Is the Uncanny Valley Real? (BBC Future)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130...

Translation of Masahiro Mori's 1970 paper (IEEE Spectrum)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/ro...

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Credits:
Written & presented by Larry Greenemeier
Edited by Joss Fong
Produced by Eric R. Olson