Masahiro Mori

Masahiro Mori is a Japanese engineer who builds a lot of robots. He and his students built Honda’s robot called Asimo.

The Uncanny Valley

Masahiro Mori, based on Freud’s ideas about The Uncanny came up with the idea of The Uncanny Valley which is that the more robots look like people, the more the small differences will make them look creepy.

Thoughts on Religion

In 1974, Mori wrote a book about why he believed it was possible for robots to become Buddhas.