The Branding of Japan

I also feel the idea ''robot as a friend'' is rather unreasonable. It's just a programmed thing, so it's completely different from living things. Also, the old ladies who were talking with the seal bots were I think not seriously trying to have communication with them. I think they were doing it for fun. And Saya! She is very unique, though really scary. It was so scarry and shocking that I forgot what it was for. By the way, I have read an article about a hypothesis called uncanny valley on internet before. What it mainly says is that robots looking and moving like human are really scary, because it's very weird, so Saya's frightfulness is founded on a scientific theory.