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Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?

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The Greatest Decade in the History of Humanity

In 1970, a Japanese academic journal published an article by a roboticist. Masahiro Mori put his finger on what we call today the uncanny valley. It took many years after he wrote this article for it to be translated into English. In 2005, a rough translation of it was leaked out and made public.

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