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    Lip-syncing robot gets one step closer to crossing the uncanny valley

    Apr 14, 2021 4 minutes
    DR CARL STRATHEARN Roboticist
    DR CARL STRATHEARN

    WHAT IS THE UNCANNY VALLEY?

    The uncanny valley is a point where things like humanoid robots and CGI characters start to give us an eerie feeling. And the reason for that is because they’re not perfect representations of humans – they never quite get there. So, they emit these feelings of terror, unease and unfriendliness.

    From birth we’re able to detect and analyse faces. And faces play such an important part in our communication. When we start to see things that shouldn’t be there, things that are out of place, we do get that feeling of repulsion. It’s not just appearance, though, it’s in functionality as well. The way robots move, say. If a robot

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