The Uncanny Valley Explained - Why Robots, Dolls and Mannequins are Creepy The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious ...

When we're talking about autonomous vehicles, there are very big names. Who are those names and what are they up to? Aarian ...

We’ve covered a ton of Boston Dynamics robots but this is the second one in a row that has shown a departure from what a lot of people’s notion of an ‘advanced’ robot should look like.

How does a robot perform as a boss at work? The results of research by Polish scientists published in Cognition, Technology & ...

For those that are unaware, Androids are often judged by where they fall on the uncanny valley curve, a graph that maps human revulsion to robots that closely resemble humans but are just a bit ...

The wide, slightly frantic eyes left no doubt the technology was firmly in "uncanny valley" territory but the ... flickering faces and bipedal robots that stomped around the room, steadying ...

The eerie and uncomfortable new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC comes at a poignant moment ...

In this way, the developers want to reduce the “Uncanny Valley” effect that artificial people can trigger in real people. The effect, which impairs the acceptance of human-looking robots due ...