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I guess a lot of people must want humanoid robots, but they’re mostly in the uncanny valley for me, and the more realistic they are, the more uncomfortable I’d be.

If I had a robotic assistant at home or in the workplace, I’d want something WALL-E like. Emotive lights or even an 8-bit display with expressions is fine. But no hair or anything completely unrelated to function, please.

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Also, the robot voice. A while ago, SF movies were projecting robot voices easily distinguishable from human ones. I made peace with the idea that I'd hear something in line with those vocal timbres when the time would come, but nowadays the phone chatbots (and also other use cases where they resort to employing assisted human-robot interaction) are all imitating human voices. I find it jarring, it's like when I figure out that some (human) stranger was trying to trick me by impersonating someone I know.

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