"The Creepy Mirror - Why we hate robots that look too human" investigates the "Uncanny Valley." Coined by roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970, the theory states that as a robot becomes more human-like, our empathy increases-until a certain point. When it becomes almost perfect but slightly off (dead eyes, stiff movement), our feeling plunges into revulsion and horror.Tech writer David Robot explores the evolutionary reasons. Is it a mechanism to avoid corpses? A way to detect disease? The book looks at examples from the movie The Polar Express to modern androids."The Creepy Mirror" explains the...