Find the 'uncanny valley' at the Imagine Festival

by Leo Bankersen
7 April 201530 March 2022
1 min read
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With so many robots and even a robot design master class (Mark Setrakian, 16 April) at the Imagine Festival, it can't hurt to delve into the 'uncanny valley' again. What was that like again?

A robot needs to look absolutely nothing like a human to still be cute and evoke real emotions. See, for example, Pixar's rubbish robot Wall-E. And if a robot is simply played by an actor, we have little problem with it either. But robots that are almost real people, but just barely h...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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With so many robots and even a robot design master class (Mark Setrakian, 16 April) at the Imagine Festival, it can't hurt to delve into the 'uncanny valley' again. What was that like again?