You know....I was just watching Robot Chicken..they had an episode where the scientist was speaking of some new development in female inspired robotics.
Then, one of the audience members inquired if he could have sex with the robot, much to the scientist's chagrin.
Obviously the language of the skit was much more crude than the way I explained it, but you get the point.
To answer your question....yes, it is creepy, very creepy indeed.
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Probably because it's lost in the "Uncanny Valley" (not the valley you yodel up ). It's the name given to the sudden drop in empathy most people feel for near-human objects. Like how a Teddy bear is cute, but if it starts walking around and trying to look you in the eyes it seems like it should be in a horror movie.
For most people, the closer something gets to looking like an average human, the more missing details stand out and take away the illusion or make you uncomfortable. Which is why the toys in Toy Story seemed more human than the humans, or why something like The Polar Express is less involving than Ratattouille. This is also why the near-human creatures in movies like Silent Hill (or the unnatural movements of the girl in The Ring) are so unsettling.
As for that "girl" in the video, it looks like a mildly motorized RealDoll. Science is capable of robots that move much more realistically - just watch a recent movie with animatronics. More interesting to me are things like the video of the four-legged robot than can maintain its balance under almost any situation or impact, on ice, gravel, hills or solid, flat ground.