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When things are even just a little, tiny bit off, we notice. That’s the theory behind the “uncanny valley,” the idea that the closer humanoid robots look to real people, the more that subtle ...

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

Despite being the biggest electric-vehicle market in the world, China might decide it’s had enough of Tesla. In this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we break it all down.

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 ...

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

Before I get into telling you just how good the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N really is – and believe me, it’s fantastic – I need to explain the theory of the uncanny valley. First hypothesised in 1970 ...

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 ...