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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 ...

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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 ...