The rough and ugly face of 'robot citizens' Sophia is intentional! The reason is ...

The appearance of the robot Sophia is modeled after Audrey Hepburn - a film icon of the 90s. But many people still feel bad, and this is the reason.

Sophia - the world's first civilian robot has been a controversial topic on a global scale. The big question marks, her overly privileged interests, or the threat of rebellious AIs invading Earth . all need answers from experts. Top family.

But besides, some people are extremely anxious about . the aesthetic ability of experts from Hanson Robotics - Sophia's father. If compared to Jia Jia of China, or the beautiful Japanese female robots, Sophia could be a lot inferior to beauty.

Jia Jia and Sophia have quite different beauty.

Some people speculate that the company may have . regretted investing in Sophia's appearance, or having some technological limitations. But the real reason must be more convincing.

Aesthetics is a unique concept of each person

According to the caption on Hanson Robotics' homepage, Sophia is modeled after Audrey Hepburn - a film icon of the 90s.

Sophia was originally taken from Audrey Hepburn's appearance.

This means, she possesses a classic beauty: pinkish white skin, tall, slender nose, attractive smile, and big, round, impressive eyes . Of course, Sophia's expressive ability though Very impressive, but still rough, and this may be the reason many people feel she is not beautiful.

But you don't see Sophia as bad or beautiful, because it is your personal feeling. Evidence is that some comments on social networks still claim that she is beautiful, even more beautiful "Chinese . excellent robot" Jia Jia of China.

Perhaps Hanson Robotics had intentionally made Sophia worse

Although very impressed with Sophia, you need to notice that Sophia appears in public in a somewhat . unusual appearance. She has no legs, her hands are made quite rough, and especially . no hair. We also see that the head is made of transparent material, observing the entire component inside.

Sophia wears her hair is a different story.

Such a robot obviously cannot be considered beautiful. The thing is, Hanson Robotics has the ability to set her up with a pair of legs, give her a set of hair, or embellish something to make her more human.

The problem is that they don't do it, and maybe this is intentional action, coming from the phenomenon named: uncanny valley - strange valley.

This effect is understood very simply as follows, when something is not human, but has some human-like features, it will become very attractive. The thing is that if it becomes too human (but not human), we will be horrified.

Strange valley: When a robot is too similar, it becomes a nightmare.

The cause of this "valley" has not been clarified yet. Just knowing that, it is more likely to appear at the boundary of the Non-Must-Human state to Man.

So is it possible to help his robot not scary and accepted by the public, David Hanson (Sophia's father's engineer) made it . less beautiful? By retaining many characteristics of a robot, the "strange valley" effect will not happen again.

This explanation seems completely grounded, although its use is somewhat counterproductive, when many people assume that Sophia makes them feel creepy.

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