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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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human — known as the “uncanny valley” effect. Until now, research on the “uncanny valley” phenomenon has focused mainly on robots’ appearance. But their study, published in the ...

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In this video, we explore the science and psychology behind humanoid robots, the uncanny valley effect, and the potential social and ethical implications of giving machines a human face.