When Pixar screened a computer-animated short film called "Tin Toy" in 1988, test audiences hated the sight of the pseudo-realistic baby named "Billy" who terrorized the toys. Such a strong ...

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 ...

Many toys that represent human figures tend to invoke the uncanny valley, but some are so creepy that it’s unclear what parent’s would look at it and think “my child needs one of these.” ...

When Pixar screened a computer-animated short film called "Tin Toy" in 1988, test audiences hated the sight of the pseudo-realistic baby named "Billy" who ...

But David is creepy, even though he looks just like a person (thanks, in no small part, to the fact that he is played by a real life actor...). Even across the Uncanny Valley, the absence of a ...

The uncanny valley effect is an oft-cited phenomenon where robots or CGI that closely approximate human appearance elicit a strong negative emotional response, even feelings of dread. People are ...

When a Japanese robotics pioneer first described the "uncanny valley" of creepy objects, he filled its imaginary depths with human cyborgs, corpses and undead zombies. But four decades can change ...

When we spoke by Zoom, MacDorman, a world-renowned expert in human-computer interaction, showed me several robots that tend to drop into the uncanny valley but do not come close to being humanlike.

Take a trip to the uncanny valley and hope you make it back unscathed Linda Rodriguez McRobbie Pollock’s Toy Museum is one of London’s loveliest small museums, a creaking Dickensian warren of ...

Creepy dolls vs. killer robots As for “M3GAN,” which director Johnstone summed up as “an analogy about parenting in the age of iPads,” time will tell if the actual film is as creepy as the ...