Yes it is normal.
Part of the problem is that these robots look so artificial in their movements. The other, and you mentioned Chuck E. Cheese by name, it used to be Show Biz Pizza when I was a child and I remember seeing a whole band sort of perform. Aside from how fake they moved was all the clicking and clacking of the hard plastic parts and the whirring of servo-motors moving various parts as well. It probably did not help that I had seen the first Terminator movie before then. We have a series of movies to thank for our fears of robots and at least a handful of Twilight Zone episodes, but maybe it is more fundamental than that, like some childrens' fright with clowns.
Is it normal that I'm terrified of these things?
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Yes it is normal.
Part of the problem is that these robots look so artificial in their movements. The other, and you mentioned Chuck E. Cheese by name, it used to be Show Biz Pizza when I was a child and I remember seeing a whole band sort of perform. Aside from how fake they moved was all the clicking and clacking of the hard plastic parts and the whirring of servo-motors moving various parts as well. It probably did not help that I had seen the first Terminator movie before then. We have a series of movies to thank for our fears of robots and at least a handful of Twilight Zone episodes, but maybe it is more fundamental than that, like some childrens' fright with clowns.