The Uncanny Valley

[<] [>]  by C. Scott Davis [@]

5 November 2009

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Drabble Challenge #48

Prompt: spooky

"I don't understand. The more life-like our robots are, the better they sell."

"To a point. These latest ones are just realistic enough to be creepy."

"Creepy."

"According to customer feedback."

"And your solution is to go back to producing the older ones, with lifeless plastic faces?"

"Yes."

"After all of the money we poured into R&D, to develop SynthSkin and micro-servos?"

"It's either that or go out of business."

"So, we should just have R&D close up shop then?"

"Not at all. Once you can make robots realistic enough, customers will want them again."

"I will never understand people."

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