A Six-Legged Insectile Robot Is Just As Creepy As It Sounds

A Six-Legged Insectile Robot Is Just As Creepy As It Sounds
AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer

The uncanny valley teems with creepy humanoids—machines not quite perfect enough to be mistaken for people, but not quite comically robotic enough to be endearing. Lately, they've been joined by robo-animals, like the mechanical dog from Boston Dynamics that not-at-all-unsettlingly regains its balance if you kick it.

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