Uncanny valley and abject

In the last tutorial I had with Daniel, he thought my project is mostly about the uncanny and the abject. I agreed with the uncanny part and I have thought about it already. Nevertheless, I found a lot of interesting things about the theory behind uncanny and abject. Until lately, 'uncanny' was familiar to me only thanks to the X-Men comics. :)

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The uncanny valley is the most interesting of these three terms. It's used to describe the humanoid robots that look so uncannily human-like that could be mistaken for humans, yet they lack the detail of realness and consequently they seem weird, creepy and repulsive. At least in theory. I should add, that I have seen videos of the latest robot technology a lot already and it's quite common thanks to YouTube. I guess the more familiar we get to these strange human-looking but mechanical creatures, the more used to we get with them. And they don't seems so strange any more. Just like vampires and zombies are so over-used in contemporary culture that we literally grow up with them. Which leads me to my troubling thought - it is very difficult to show somehting truly uncanny and weird on the image.

This Japanese robot looks super ahppy and rigid and a little bit retarded, especially in the end when she waves. But it's a big advance compared to the ones they have made before. I mean the ones with a very child-like voice and huysterically happy gigling woman-robots...