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Unusual is rapidly gaining popularity on the Internet video recording, surprising, perplexing and even somewhat frightening Web users.
Mysterious video demonstrates a certain path along which a humanoid robot slowly walks. What is this humanoid did the car so alert many viewers? Fact that android moves exactly like a man, without betraying anything artificiality, except, of course, appearance.
The so-called “sinister valley effect” immediately comes to mind. This psychological hypothesis states that any object that not a human being, however overly like him, we subconsciously cause dislike, disgust and fear in us. By for this reason, some Japanese and American experts in the field Robotics are forced to specifically make their offspring less anthropomorphic so that they are not perceived by people as living creatures did not bother others.
Alas, the exact origin of these frames is not yet known. If would an android be created by some major robotics a company like Boston Dynamics, it probably wouldn’t become suppress this fact and refuse such an effective viral advertising. Is such an amazing car was built by some enthusiasts?
Meanwhile, skeptics on the Internet suggest that before us a thin man in a suit or impressive computer graphics. At the same time, other users are suggesting that such throw-up is made specifically to show people – modern robots indistinguishable from an ordinary person may well to be among us …
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