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

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

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

For those that are unaware, Androids are often judged by where they fall on the uncanny valley curve, a graph that maps human revulsion to robots that closely resemble humans but are just a bit ...

This week on Uncanny Valley, we look ahead into a future where ... but they were expressing some kind of displeasure about this robot overtaking their street. Michael Calore: Trying to hurt ...

The eerie and uncomfortable new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC comes at a poignant moment for women in the US ...

Motions and reactions are all modelled on flesh and blood hounds, but the industrial design in unashamedly robotic – there’ll be no walkies in the uncanny valley. As well as the ... allowing the robot ...