Can Entity Dolls Escape The Uncanny Valley Theory?

If I tell you this is a robot.

Are you scared when you look at this robot?

The Uncanny Valley theory is a hypothesis about how humans feel about robots and non-human objects. It was proposed by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970, but the term "Uncanny Valley" was proposed by Ernst Janchi in his 1906 paper "Uncanny Valley Psychology", and his views were introduced by Freud. Explained in the 1919 thesis "Uncanny Valley", thus becoming a famous theory.

Mori Masahiro’s hypothesis points out that because robots are similar in appearance and actions to humans, humans will also have positive emotions towards robots; up to a certain level, their reactions will suddenly become extremely negative. Even if there is only a slight difference between a robot and a human, it will be very conspicuous and dazzling. The whole robot looks very stiff and terrifying, making people feel like facing zombies. However, when the similarity between robots and humans continues to rise, which is equivalent to the similarity between ordinary people, humans’ emotional responses to them will return to the positive again, resulting in empathy between humans.

The term "Uncanny Valley" is used to describe the rejection of humans to robots that resemble them to a certain degree. The "valley" refers to the relationship between "favorite degree versus similarity" in the research. Before the similarity approached 100%, the favorability degree suddenly dropped to the dislike level and rose back to the range before the favorability.

The uncanny valley phenomenon can be explained by the following thoughts. If an entity is "not enough to be anthropomorphic," its human-like characteristics will be conspicuous and easily recognizable, resulting in empathy. On the other hand, if an entity is "enough to be anthropomorphic," its non-human characteristics will become a conspicuous part, creating a strange feeling in the eyes of human observers.

Another possibility is that the sick person and the corpse have many visual deformities similar to some humanoid robots, eliciting the same panic and emotional response of the observer. This reaction is worse on robots than corpses, because people can easily understand the reason for their disgust towards corpses, but they cannot clearly understand why they dislike robots. Behavioral deformities include the behavioral characteristics of the disease, neurological state or even mental dysfunction, which arouses serious negative emotions in the observer.

This phenomenon can also be explained by the theory of evolutionary psychology. First, entities in the Uncanny Valley are sufficiently anthropomorphic to be considered as members of the human species. According to the theory of evolutionary psychology, after millions of years of natural selection, the existing human brain that has not been eliminated by nature has a kind of logical partiality, providing a high ability to sense and reject those that reflect genetic diseases or Lack of health, human abnormalities in overall appearance. Therefore, intentionally or unintentionally, the potential impact of abnormal humanoid individuals in the human gene pool will also arouse observers' vigilance. This explains why humans generally do not find humanoid entities capable of sexual contact very attractive.

Therefore, in order to avoid that the static humanoid of the physical doll will make users feel disgusted and scared, the current technology tries to make the physical doll look more realistic and skip the uncanny valley. Nowadays, many smart physical dolls have appeared. They look very realistic, but they don't make people feel terrible. Users said that these realistic sex dolls make them feel like real girlfriends are accompanying him.

Let’s take a look at the most realistic and most popular brand of physical dolls in China, gynoid doll.Gynoid (Synthetic Humanoid), an amazing designer and manufacturer of life-like, hyper-realistic silicone love dolls. Gynoid Dolls specialize in the research and development of ultra-realistic silicone dolls and artificial intelligent robot lovers. 

With a team of highly experienced industry-leading artists specialising in 3D digital modelling and body sculpting of synthetic humanoids, the attention to detail is phenomenal and unmatched by any.  

Gynoid Technology provides an incredible collection of sex dolls. Brought to life using premium grade, platinum silicone with an internal alloy skeleton with engineered high-grade plastic "bones" that features full-range joints for extra mobility allowing realistic movements, amazing body positions and flexibility. Gynoid are one of the most popular and best silicone dolls in the world.

Gynoid doll’s real-life dolls are highly realistic, making it difficult for you to distinguish real or fake.Let you no longer fall into the uncanny valley.