It's not so strange for animals to get their own Funeral, after all, they become family. However, we have never heard of a funeral for robot dogs! Well, that's what they did in Japan! 114 of Japan's Sony old generation AIBO robot dogs (the world's first machine pet capable of developing its own personality) were sent off to dog nirvana.
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Via Great big story
How do you record the most intimate moments in the animal kingdom? If you're a clever English bloke, you build lookalike "spy creatures." Filmmaker John Downer has spent much of his life capturing footage of wildlife, but it wasn't until he and his team created robotic animals with built-in spy cameras that he was able to record rare footage of animal behavior in the wild, essentially from the perspective of the animal. Step inside his workshop to see how his mechanical menagerie spies on nature's actors.
Who said uncanny valley only applied to humans?
