Human-Robot Relationship

The #"uncanny valley" hypothesis articulated by Masahri Mori in 1970 was the first theoretical evaluation of the predicted relationship between humans and non-living agents, including robots. Thus “perfect” human-like robots would represent only a relatively short and transient period in the technical development of social robots, which would be followed by robots to which some people may refer to as “trans-humans” during a transitional period and then moving away from human likeness, as “post-humans”. Read more...

Second uncanny valley (unpublished source by Jamais Cascio)