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CREEPY ROBOTS OF THE WEEK

by Hazed

There’s a Japanese roboticist who specializes in building lifelike robots that really creep you out, because they are close to realistic but not... quite... there. (That phenomenon is called the uncanny valley, and it also applies to computer-generated images of people, in video games or animated films, that never quite look real enough.)

Now there’s a display of Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro’s creations on show in the Takashimaya department store in Tokyo, guaranteed to make passers-by feel uneasy.

Take a look at these pictures to see what I mean.

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