Read up on the "Uncanny Valley" again. Your example is one of the cases that lea...

DLWormwood on Sept 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Very cool, but very creepy, open source project

Read up on the "Uncanny Valley" again. Your example is one of the cases that lead to the development of the hypothesis in the first place. (The concept dates back to 1906 with a German paper.)