The 'bots are among us, including delivery drones, autonomous vehicles and service droids.

This reaction reflects the uncanny valley effect, where nearly human-like ... “We need to get our AI baby perfect,” he repeated in every meeting. “It needs to be flawless before we can ...

Perhaps you’ve experienced what psychologists call the uncanny valley and felt unease with certain humanoid faces. This experience shows people can detect anomalies, even when they can’t fully explain ...

Like many people, I wind down at the end of the day with a scroll binge, taking in videos of Italian grandmothers making pasta or baby pygmy ... call the uncanny valley and felt unease with ...

Seeing human-like robots, dolls, and AI-generated faces can trigger eerie, put-off feelings towards the figure, a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley. Though these figures look almost human, there ...

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

The uncanny valley can provoke outright rejection in viewers, and Baake and colleagues wondered to what extent the humanlike characteristics of AI-avatars representing science communicators ...