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Uncanny Valley

The increasing unease one experience as an entity approaches realistic humanoid characteristics or appearance, where the more realist (but still subtly not human) the entity appears, the greater unease or cold feelings are felt, where if the entity is decidedly not humanoid then we experience little unease.

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Origin

First developed by robotics expert Masahiro Mori in 1970.