Robot girlfriends are arriving fast — and the uncanny valley is being paved over
TansuYegen · x · 2026-10-02
Sharing a demo of an increasingly realistic robot companion, Tansu Yegen argues the real twist is how quickly people will normalize it: the uncanny valley is being paved over in real time.
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