The term “uncanny valley” was coined by Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in 1970. Karl F. MacDorman, one of the leading researchers on human/robotics relations, summed up Mori’s ...

Mori said, “I have read that there is scientific evidence that the uncanny valley does indeed exist; for example, by measuring brain waves scientists have found evidence of that.

The movie is a classic example of the phenomenon known as “the uncanny ... Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina and Dan Wegner of Harvard demonstrated the uncanny valley systematically.

Generally called the uncanny valley makeup trend, it involves creators using makeup to appear as hyper-realistic bots. Some of the videos under this trend have received up to 13 million likes on ...

Roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the term “uncanny valley” in 1970 as a way of describing the sometimes viscerally negative reactions people have to humanoid robots.It’s often presented in a ...

Fearing such an effect, many animation studios steer clear of the uncanny valley altogether and prefer to place cartoonish humans amid more realistic surroundings, as in the Oscar-winning Pixar ...

The Uncanny Valley Effect. The "uncanny valley effect" is a term used by those who build robots, make animated movies, or design video games. It describes how people find human-like robots and ...