Robots, the ’uncanny valley’ and learning to love the alien - Telegraph
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We humans have evolved to relate emotionally to inanimate artefacts, which is strange when you think about it. Children play with dolls and toy soldiers as if they were people. Adults talk to their cars. As long as they are robot-like and “mechanical”, we are comfortable around them, and can display affection (as for an old car). But when it comes to human-like robots, something unnerving happens.