Nonetheless, there are lots of jobs one could do in the circus with a higher comfort level than human cannonball.

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Do we always have to question ourselves and stop our innate human qualities to reach out and comfort each other?

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Writing of the Japanese comfort with robots, she allows that human-machine living may be different in a society where even sewing needles are buried.

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In their study, just published in Computers in Human Behavior, they say that Dr Mori's ideas of familiarity and comfort level do not properly get at the quality of uncanniness.

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