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 ...

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 ...

I ended CES by finishing a book. It was Uncanny Valley, a memoir from New Yorker contributor Anna Wiener, which comes out on Tuesday. It’s not a polemic, and, despite the many (thinly veiled ...

But it’s important to remember that in between those peaks, other natural features can be just as beautiful in the ... is a demonstration of the uncanny valley. Note, for instance, the odd ...