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The uncanny valley effect refers to the phenomenon whereby as a robot's appearance increasingly resembles a real human, human affinity first rises, then plunges sharply into discomfort or even fear at the threshold where it approaches but does not fully achieve realism, only recovering when the resemblance advances further to the point where it is indistinguishable from a real person.
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