H umanoid robots have glimmered on the tech horizon for half a century, but each new prototype still triggers Masahiro Mori’s ...

“The Uncanny Valley,” a phrase coined by Masahiro Mori, suggests that human replicas that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit eeriness and feelings of revulsion among ...

The most unsettling thing you can think of is anything in the Uncanny Valley. This occurs when something like robots or dolls begin to look more human-like, and people find it disturbing. Japanese ...