The Uncanny Valley Explained - Why Robots, Dolls and Mannequins are Creepy The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious, creepy feeling people experience when androids, robots, dolls ...

Before she became a meme, a TikTok dance, and a new icon of horror cinema, M3GAN was just another script on Hollywood’s development pile. But behind the screen-queen swagger and silicone stare lies ...

AI and the Uncanny Valley For this study, published in the Journal of Science Communication, Jasmin Baake, one of the study authors, and colleagues wondered if receiving scientific information from ...

There’s something uncanny about the office. And in the case of Apple TV Plus' Severance, it's the uncanny valley.

The “uncanny valley” is a characteristic dip in emotional response that happens when we encounter an entity that is almost, but not quite, human. It was first hypothesised in 1970 by Japanese ...

Cali Bellow’s uncanny valley music spans the sweet and the scary Agriculture bassist and screamer Leah B. Levinson builds an organic world of synthetic sounds on her new album, Ciao Bella.

Artificial intelligence Reckoning with generative AI’s uncanny valley This isn’t a problem to be fixed, but instead an opportunity to reassess what the AI industry really wants and expects ...

While R-rated horror movies can amp up the gore and violence, the best PG-13 films in the genre can be just as intense and scary.

OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode, reminiscent of the movie Her, sounds almost too human.

Uncanny Valley makeup is about more than just a Halloween costume; it speaks to a cultural shift. A professional makeup artist explains.

But Nemo isn’t creepy, Pikachu doesn’t give you the willies, and Big Bird is nowhere near the precipice of the uncanny valley. Still, roboticists and animators need to know: When virtual and robotic ...