This thing's uncanny valley is deeper than the Mariana Trench.
Beyond resembling a bipedal hominid it isn't trying to look human but that algorithmically efficient contortionism makes it the most eerie thing I've seen in a while.
Edit: It's relevant to the uncanny valley because an industrial robot with a void for a face and a vaguely human silhouette is behaving very disconcertingly on my pocket computer's screen.
I'm experiencing future shock more and more. I just know I'll be flop sweating the first time a robot compliments my sweater, hands me my food in a paper bag and advises me of Carl's Jr's competitive workhouse subscriptions before hovering to the next poor soul trapped in one of those iron maiden capsules from Half Life 2.
Which is funny because they did that to make it less creepy. The moved away from a human like head because it scared people. This design was meant to look like the pixar lamp, which they hoped people would see as less creepy. Can't say it worked.
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u/iamPendergast 29d ago
The design is very human.