Thanks to companies like Boston Dynamics, we now have robots that can climb stairs, run parkour, and even perform…
At some point in the production of every live-action adaptation of an illustrated franchise, creative teams have to…
It’s easier to mindlessly blast away a room full of video game baddies when they look at you with dead eyes and…
Hollywood has a history of animating kids in ways that are supposed to be adorable, but end up giving us night…
“Virtual reality, to me, is the only reality.” So begins Uncanny Valley, a short from Argentina’s Federico Heller…
Most robots don’t have IMDb pages. Geminoid F isn’t most robots.
A team of British researchers have a salacious hypothesis: People like robots more when they exhibit the same sorts…
Matt McMullen’s RealDoll proved some people are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a fully customized sex doll. His new project, Realbotix, will try to integrate robotics and artificial intelligence to enhance the experience (and make it far more expensive). Check out the video at the New York Times’ Bits site. Read more
I can't look away. This "realistic" life-sized Marty McFly I found on eBay is just too... creepy. The uncanny valley…
The subject of this video is not real. It is a hyper-realistic, digital human head created by Australian designer…
Julie Beck's latest feature for The Atlantic is chock-full of all the salacious factoids one expects from an article…
In 1995 Eugene Volokh wrote the most paleofuturish article ever written. By that I mean it's an incredibly prescient…
The "uncanny valley" is that creepy Final Fantasy feeling when a robot or CGI character is too dead-eyed to be…

Theoretically, a perfect robot face would look normal. But until we reach utter perfection, everything that falls…
A central theme of the recently concluded GF2045 Congress was the idea of achieving a kind of immortality by…

We're not entirely sure if United Arrows' new MarionetteBot makes mannequins more or less creepy, but it's…