The Uncanny Valley Explained - Why Robots, Dolls and Mannequins are Creepy The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious, creepy feeling people experience when androids, robots, dolls ...

Unfortunately, the "Uncanny Valley" effect — the discomfort that "almost right" robots cause in people — means that we're not yet at the point where robots can successfully pass for people.

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.

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has shared a new video of its latest-generation humanoid robot, Atlas, doing forward rolls ...

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “ uncanny valley ” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but ...

How does a robot perform as a boss at work? The results of research by Polish scientists published in Cognition, Technology & Work suggest that while robots can command obedience, it is not as strong ...

That’s the theory behind the “uncanny valley,” the idea that the closer humanoid robots look to real people, the more that subtle, slightly-askew differences will make them exponentially ...

It’s a small robot at just over 80 cm in height ... That’s too far down the uncanny valley for us. Video below.

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