Sentences with phrase «japanese roboticists»
The struggles of Japanese roboticists came despite a national program in the 1980s to develop robotics for nuclear power plants.
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Their discomfort demonstrates what the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori referred to in 1970 as the «uncanny valley»: Our affinity toward robots and animations increases as they physically appear more humanlike, except for a large dip where they are almost but not quite there.
Today, the «uncanny valley» phenomenon remains almost as mysterious as when Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori first coined the term in 1970.