A minimalist robot

What an interesting and sad experiment! "A minimalist humanoid robot." I have liked minimalist design, but . . . .

Yes, it reminds us of Casper the Friendly Ghost.

"The uncanny valley is a hypothesis regarding the field of robotics."(http://bit.ly/7tHzMg) I didn't know this interesting hypothesis.

I talk with my mother once a week on the phone. She was born in 1920 and lives in my hometown that is more than a thousand kilometers away from where I am living now.