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, mannequins ...

Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests.

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The use of AI-generated testimonials with increasingly realistic human features is becoming widespread on social media ...

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “uncanny valley” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but are a bit off bring fear and disgust to many observers. This effect ...

Donald Trump’s tariff announcements are roiling the markets. On this week’s special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we break it ...

"Uncanny," at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, mines the anxious terrain of flesh, robots and off-kilter realism.

The uncanny valley is what makes the CG animation of Bob Zemeckis movies so skin-crawling. It’s why we cringed through Mass Effect: Andromeda. The reason AI generated babies raise instinctual alarm ...

Wikipedia says “The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will risk eliciting cold, eerie feelings in viewers.” And yes, we have to admit that as incredible ...