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Re:Boston Dynamics has a new creepy dog-like robot called Sp... by Hextinium on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:58AM (#15693256)
The problem with that is that you would get further into the uncanny valley, it would actually make the problem worse before BD gets effective enough to make it out of the uncanny valley.
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Re:Boston Dynamics has a new creepy dog-like robot called Sp... by digi_owl on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:43AM (#15694855)
Sony's Aibo suggests otherwise.

The trick is to aim for stylistic rather than photorealistic.

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