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Creepy Robot of the Day

The Einstein robot.

The walking shots are what Einstein would look like sneaking up behind old people to eat their medicine for fuel.

And here's an excellent article (WARNING: creepy photo) about recent studies into the phenomenon of The Uncanny Valley -- how and why humanoid robots and CG movie characters creep us out. I actually think they should rename it The Creepy Zemeckis. After Beowulf and Polar Express, he still had the balls to make A Christmas Carol with all of its creepy simulated Dickensian humanoids. I don't understand who gave him the money to do this again.

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