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The 'uncanny valley' is fully illustrated here.

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It would help, given the endless moral panics about tech, if robots were a bit friendlier. Elsewhere I've encouraged the development of smiling and the default to the passivity of the Mona Lisa look, stuff like that. In general, folk respond better to female robots and they need to be less than 5ft 6". Any taller, they are perceived as a threat. Too short and they are treated as a toy or gimmick.

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