Uncanny Valley

Thanks to companies like Boston Dynamics, we now have robots that can climb stairs, run parkour, and even perform…

I, for one, am not ready.

Sonic the Hedgehog doesn’t look promising. But it definitely has room to look… stranger.

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…

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…

We've known about Machine Perception Lab's super-realistic robot baby for quite some time now, but we've never…

This Halloween, do you harbor the sociopathic desire to convey to everyone you know and appreciate — once and for…