For This Reason People are Scared of Humanoid robots

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The Uncanny Valley Theory
This could be due to our sense of preservation—after all, humans tend to be very "us vs. them," even with each other. So why would we react any differently to a perceived potential threat? To understand why humans have an aversion to robots, especially humanoid bots, we have to consider the Uncanny Valley theory. Created by roboticist Masahiro Mori, the theory proposes that humanoid robots make us uncomfortable because they trip the same psychological alarms associated with a lifeless or unhealthy human. Mori's theory, which is presented as a curve, further ventures that the human sense of familiarity moves up the incline of the curve as we interact with human-like machines.

Location, Location, Location
So where in the brain is the robotic fear epicenter? To answer this question, researchers used a functional MRI, a noninvasive way to measure and map brain activity, that let them monitor the neural activity of volunteers who looked at a mix of photos showing robots and humans.
The volunteers ranked the likability of each picture, and then researchers asked them which photo subject they would choose to select a gift for a loved one. Each volunteer picked a human or humanoid bot, but no one chose the robots that looked too similar to human beings. Using the fMRI scans, researchers deduced that the parts of our brains that make us skeezed out by eerily human-like robots are located in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex (found at the front of the frontal lobe) is what makes us act against our primal nature and urges. This part of the brain is much more evolved in humans than it is in other animals, and houses many of our personality traits. Meanwhile, the amygdalae (found on the left and right sides of human brains) are located in the anterior portion of the temporal lobe and let us feel and read emotions in others.

What Years of Sci-Fi Did
Sci-fi has been using this effect on us for years. There have been thousands of monsters in sci-fi, but the ones that stick in our minds aren’t the bug-eyed aliens, rather it’s those that seem human but subvert it somehow. Much of this is to do with behaviour – when you think about what’s scary about a zombie, the fact that they want to eat you is fairly high on the list. But it’s also that so many of these creatures inhabit almost-human bodies, which disturbs us just as much as photoshopped images of hole-covered hands do.

Doctor Who and the Almost-Human
The BBC television series ‘Doctor Who’ is absolutely full of examples of human-but-not. This is partly due to excellent writers, but also down to a lack of budget, so many of the monsters are, very simply, twists on a human. Take the Cybermen, for example – human bodies wrapped up in cold, unfeeling, impenetrable steel whose clunking walk and blank eyes stay with you for far longer than the death and destruction they cause does. But our favourite example is the ‘Doctor Who’ episode ‘The Empty Child’ by Steven Moffat.

Rejuvination Process
However still, many of us find ways to beat this phenomenon. Take for example the great popularity of love dolls at the moment. People are going that extra mile now to make sure their doll-partner does not repulse them. If your love doll has seen better days, we've got some good news for you as there's now a place it can go to be fixed up good and proper. Galmato Haven bills itself as the 'first and only official realdoll certified repair centre' and offers a spa retreat for worn out dolls, providing them with 'the ULTIMATE in rejuvenation'.

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