We can never underestimate how important it is to our basic humanness to be self-sufficient in every way.
The robots were the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner, and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness.
That day in Corvara I experienced something different but equally powerful: An awareness of my own humanness, a sense of privilege.
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Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point.
But aposiopesis is important in literature because of its colloquial humanness.
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This arcane game exudes humanness--it touches us like music and literature.
Can you live with the complexity of your humanness?
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While fMRI tells where in the brain activity occurs, EEG is better for looking at when -- that is, when in viewing agents with different degrees of humanness do people's brain patterns change.
Scales that turned out to measure the same qualities with different words were eliminated and the researchers eventually lighted on 19 that described aspects of four underlying qualities that they dub attractiveness, eeriness, humanness and warmth.
"What I really feel very strongly about, and I hope reflects in all aspects of my work, is the human touch, the humanness of things, the positive and sometimes the negative and sometimes the sad, " Christenberry says.
By plotting perceived humanness along the horizontal axis and eeriness along the vertical, Dr MacDorman says that he can recreate Dr Mori's chart of the uncanny valley, this time using real data about how people feel about a particular robot or animation.
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