According to Wikipedia:

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The “valley” in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot`s human likeness.

The term was coined by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Gensh? (???????) in 1970. The hypothesis has been linked to Ernst Jentsch‘s concept of “the uncanny” identified in a 1906 essay, “On the Psychology of the Uncanny." Jentsch`s conception was elaborated by Sigmund Freud in a 1919 essay entitled “The Uncanny” ("Das Unheimliche”).

It is my hypothesis that the emotional-relationship difficulties experienced by someone suffering from Asperger`s Syndrome (or by someone having to interact with such individual), may be very well explained by the Uncanny Valley hypothesis.

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