“Collecting is capable of drawing out and strengthening our feelings of irony, melancholy, subversion and self-knowledge. Like all fictional narratives, it offers the scope to play games and experience magical transformations: we are all the heroes of our collections.” — Susan Pearce
The Uncanny Valley is a term used to describe the relationship between the human-like appearance of a robotic object and the emotional response it evokes.
In this phenomenon, people feel a sense of unease or even revulsion in response to humanoid robots that are highly realistic.
