Norri Kageki
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Norri Kageki is best known for bringing the concept of the “uncanny valley” to a global audience, bridging Japanese robotics theory and Western scholarship. As the translator and editor of Masahiro Mori’s seminal 1970 essay for *IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine*, Kageki’s 2012 paper, “The Uncanny Valley [From the Field],” has amassed over 3,100 citations, making it a cornerstone of human-robot interaction research. Her major contribution lies in making Mori’s original hypothesis—that a robot’s near-human appearance triggers a sudden dip in emotional affinity—accessible to engineers, psychologists, and designers worldwide. Beyond this translation, Kageki has explored how cultural perceptions shape robotic design, emphasizing the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of humanlike machines. Her work has influenced fields from animation to prosthetics, sparking decades of debate and experimentation. Kageki’s achievement is not merely linguistic but conceptual: she reframed a niche robotics idea into a universal framework for understanding our complex relationship with artificial beings. For students and researchers, her biography exemplifies how careful translation can transform a local insight into a global paradigm.
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- 1The Uncanny Valley [From the Field]3,196 citations · 2012