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The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong

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This Place argues that the uncanny valley is a flawed concept, since 'human likeness' is too broad and the supporting evidence is cherry-picked. It proposes that the creepiness really comes from how animated characters and robots move.

Recommended as a convincing counterargument to the widely repeated idea of the uncanny valley.

RoboticsAnimation & visual effectsPsychology & human behavior#uncannyvalley#robotics#animation#humanlikeness

3 comments from Hacker News

@MikeLumos2021-01 · in “The “Uncanny Valley” and How Artists Have Explored It”

As a counterpoint, here's an amazing video making a convincing argument that "Uncanny Valley" isn't a thing: ▶ this video

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@Errancer2021-11 · in “Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’”

Slightly off topic but there is an interesting argument to be made against the existence of 'Uncanny Valley' – ▶ this video .

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@kortex2021-10 · in “Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion [video]”

The uncanny valley is wrong. Or rather, it is a result that appears due to the juxtaposition of robots with different goal criteria. Turns out, when you focus just on the devices which try to replicate both human likeness and emotional relate-ability (drop all the WALLe style cute but abstract ones), it's pretty linear based on how well that goal of emotional affect is achieved. ▶ this video

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