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121: The Uncanny Valley: Science of Creepy Robots
Episode 121

121: The Uncanny Valley: Science of Creepy Robots

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August 9, 20211h 0m

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Show Notes

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