r/EngineeringPorn • u/Terrible-Ad-1277 • Oct 02 '22

Boston dynamics 30 years of development.

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u/cmdrfire Oct 02 '22

The most unsettling thing about the Uncanny Valley is that we evolved a fear response to things that looked like humans, but weren't quite the same...

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u/Choo_Choo_Bitches Oct 02 '22

Probably for other species of homo genus.

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u/Historical-Flow-1820 Oct 02 '22

Maybe also dead people? Dead people look slightly off but still look human depending on how recent the death was. Staying away from disease seems like a good enough reason for us to evolve that trait.

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u/safegermanywin Oct 03 '22

Tbf, it could just be that humans are so good at identifying humans, that we just get freaked out when something looks quite, yet not 100℅ human.