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

A humanoid robot can predict whether someone will smile a ... can now mimic human language to an impressive degree, interactions with physical robots often fall into the “uncanny valley ...

Many of the works on view draw on the “uncanny valley”, a phrase that describes the strangeness evoked by figures that appear human but have unnatural qualities. The video series Conversations ...