The Uncanny Valley is a principle of robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. It was theorized by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970. The principle states that as a robot is made more humanlike in its appearance and motion, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached at which the response suddenly becomes strongly repulsive; as the appearance and motion are made to be indistinguishable to that of human being, the emotional response becomes positive ...

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• Uncanny Valley - Valley of familiarity
• Uncanny Valley - Effects of movement
• Uncanny Valley - Escape by design
• Uncanny Valley - The significance of the uncanny
• Uncanny Valley - The Uncanny Valley in film
• Uncanny Valley - Uncanny Valley as an analogy outside AI

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Although originally resulting from experimental data and applied only to robotics, the principle has been applied to computer animation characters. American film critic Roger Ebert has applied the notion of Uncanny Valley to the use of make-up and costumes of humanoid creatures in movies. The Uncanny Valley was considered by some to be the reason behind the difficulty in creating computer-animated characters. Critics of computer animated films sometimes invoke the Uncanny Valley when explaining their dislike for a particular film. The ...

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In the familiarity graph above, a healthy person is at the top of the second peak. And when we die, we fall into the trough of the uncanny valley. Our body becomes cold, our color changes, and movement ceases. Therefore, our impression of death can be explained by the movement from the second peak to the uncanny valley as shown by the dashed line in the figure. We might be happy this line is into the still valley of a corpse and that of not the living dead! I think this explains the mystery of the uncanny valley: Why do we humans have such a feeling of strangeness? Is this necessary? I have not yet consi ...

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For creatures, including robots, movement is generally a sign of life. As shown in the figure above, adding movement changes the shape of the uncanny valley by exaggerating the peaks and valley. For the industrial robot, the impact of movement is relatively slight because we see it as just a machine. If it stops moving, it just stops working. But if programmed properly to generate humanlike movements, we can enjoy some sense of familiarity. Humanlike movement requires similarity of velocity and acceleration. Conversely, if we add movement to ...

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There are mathematical functions of the form y = f(x) for which the value of y increases (or decreases) continuously with the value of x. For example, as the effort x increases, income y increases, or as a car's accelerator is pressed, the car moves faster. This kind of relationship is ubiquitous and easily understood. In fact, it covers most phenomena, so we might think that this function can represent all relations. That is why people are usually up ...

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Uncanny Valley, Uncanny Valley - Valley of familiarity, Uncanny Valley - Effects of movement, Uncanny Valley - Escape by design, Uncanny Valley - The significance of the uncanny, Uncanny Valley - The Uncanny Valley in film, Uncanny Valley - Uncanny Valley as an analogy outside AI

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