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What machines reveal about us
Robots, museums, makers: what objects tell us about ourselves.
Exhibits & objects
The uncanny valley: why overly human robots disturb us
In 1970, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori described the unease triggered by nearly human machines. From Freud to Vaucanson’s automata and those of the Edo period, from Ishiguro’s androids to AI-generated faces now judged more human than real ones, this discomfort reveals what our brain does constantly: recognise the human.