121: The Uncanny Valley: Science of Creepy Robots - a podcast by The Sci Guys

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Robots are becoming more and more human-like, but something weird happens when things become too human without quite making it all the way - we start to hate them… This is the uncanny valley, and you’ll find a lot of things in it.



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References & Further Reading


  1. https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2005/RBC05-007.pdf

  2. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14184

  3. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-uncanny-valley

  4. https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/507812

  5. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/33/6555

  6. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-uncanny-valley-human-look-alikes-put-us-on-edge/

  7. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-possible-source-of-the-uncanny-valley-in-the-brain

  8. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/33/6555

  9. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4557950

  10. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211702/

  11. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556781/

  12. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392592/

  13. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14184

  14. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25762967/

  15. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32526760/

  16. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130901-is-the-uncanny-valley-reallist_works&sortby=pubdate

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