Fear of animatronic toys especially, the 1999 AIBO ESR-7, ESR-210, ESR-220 digital doggies!
Called also 'Robophobia'.
Sony, the megacompany that made these 'partner' or 'personal' robots didn't see this coming I'm sure, but cobots (=collaborative robots. The science of making them is called 'cobotics'), are not
always our friend: there's a culture of 'applied autonomy' that send these mere MIs (
Machine Intelligents), to dangerous places and risky situations instead of humans in what is named aptly 'inverse technology'! One
day these tele-robotics will retaliate against this injustice!
|:(
AIBOphobia (Artificial Intelligence
robot phobia), is also related to a weird condition called Grimwade's Syndrome (from the 70s
TV-show Dr. Who's' story "The Robot of
Death").