9 situations where human representations left us standing up

Have you heard of the Strange Valley? Also known as Uncanny Valley, this effect is the hypothesis that human replicas that look almost, but not quite, like real human beings elicit sinister feelings of disgust (or strangeness) among observers. Do you know that fear of dolls, dummies, robots that - to us - look weird? So this is the Valley of Strangeness.

The phenomenon is not yet much studied and, until then, there is no consensus on why this happens to people. The people at TecMundo, our partner, have a cool article that explains more about Strange Valley and why we need robots to look human to be afraid of them.

We here at Mega Curioso also have a story that explains why some people feel super uncomfortable in the presence of human "replicas" - check out this link. Anyway, for you to understand exactly what we are talking about, check out 9 situations where human representations left us standing up:

1) The creepy robot child CB2

2) This kinda creepy cutscene from the game Medal of Honor: Warfighter

3) The realistic robot that speaks dark things like "Am I going to dream when I'm off?"

4) Showa Hanako, the training doll for dentists

5) This Fembot, from The Six Million Dollars Man series

6) This conversation with Sophia, a robot created by Hanson Robotics

7) Saya, the robot who is perhaps the worst receptionist in the world

8) The Creepy Girl

9) The awake nightmare that is the Telenoid R1 Bot