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Why are humans scared of robots?

“If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.”

Author and robotic engineer Daniel H Wilson’s description of How to Survive a Robot Uprising seems like it is straight out of a robot disaster movie.

From Terminator and Blade Runner to Transformers and Star Trek, robots are coming and the impending apocalypse is almost upon us. via BBC

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Image from this paper: 

The Uncanny Valley
Masahiro Mori
1970
Energy, 7(4), pp. 33-35
Translated by Karl F. MacDorman and Takashi Minato

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