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Your colourful, interactive,vivid online magazine Uncube No:26-Uncanny Valley is Out Now. If you’re still of the opinion that robots are the stuff of futuristic fantasy, then it’s time to take your head out of the science fiction clouds. This is no speculative subject: they’re very much among us – everywhere!

One of Uncube most animated issues to date, Uncanny Valley examines the status quo of robotics in architecture and beyond. Uncube reports on developments happening right now that are beginning to change the shape of our cities and how we live beyond recognition.

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Please see the index of Uncube below:

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Viewpoint: Uncanny Valley?, When empathy turns to revulsion, Text: Sophie Lovell

Found: The Good Thing About Robots, New animated film from ECAL, Text: Sophie Lovell

Essay: A Dog’s Life, Robots that were made to be loved, Text: Claire Evans

Found: Nothing Can Harm Them, Synthetic bees by Greenpeace, Text: Sophie Lovell

Case Study: The Eye Of The Swarm, Superflux’s Drone Aviary, Text: Fiona Shipwright

Essay: Machines Of Loving Grace, The city as a distributed robot & the omnipresent intelligence of data networks, Text: Sam Jacob

Found: In Our Own Image, Law and order in robotics, Text: Sophie Lovell

Case Study: The Bionic Man, Hugh Herr, head of Biomechatronics at MIT, Text: Sara Faezypour

Essay: A Kind Of Magic, A conversation about losing control over our own technology, Text: Crystal Bennes

Case Study: Cyber Sculptors, Kram/Weisshaar’s Robochop project, Text: Rob Wilson

Interview: The Otherness Of The Machine, Jan Willmann from ETH Zurich on robotics in architecture, Text: Fiona Shipwright

Found: Tug Bugs, Microbots with superstrength

Focus: Matter Design's, Best of commercial robotic fabrication innovation, Text: Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee

Found: Forever Alone, One small step for a robot..., Text: Sophie Lovell

Photo Booth: In The Photo Booth With...,Katarzyna Krakowiak, Text: Fiona Shipwright

Klaustoon: Klaustoon, XXVI. Robo-Hunting, Text: Klaus

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