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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday, time to go into the vault. This time we're bringing you part two of our exploration of the uncanny valley. This episode was originally published April 6th, 2017.

Should be jump right in Robert. Let's do it.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick, and today is going to be the second part of a two part series we're doing on the uncanny valley.

Last time we ventured into the uncanny valley. So if you haven't heard that episode, you should go back and listen to that first. We lay a lot of the groundwork for what we're going to be talking about today.

But we explored the origination of the concept of the uncanny valley, what it means to be in the uncanny valley, and some research on whether this valley actually exists or not.

Today, I think we want to start off by looking at if it does exist, what might be some explanations for it?

Indeed. Yeah, we're going to dive into it a bit more and move as the title suggests beyond the uncanny valley. But before we do that, I do want to talk about RoboCop.

Of course you want to talk about RoboCop because we talk about RoboCop pretty much every day.

Yeah, it's an important film. Important films, I'll say, at least the first two. Arguably the third one too. Throw in the TV series if you like.

But there was a TV series. Oh, yeah. RoboCop TV series. It was one of those that would I think would come on sci-fi or it came on various cable channels.

I only have a vague awareness of it because it seemed to be a far lower key RoboCop type show.

So in many of the studies that we talked about in the last episode, they were looking at largely three categories of robots and humans and Android.

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