It wouldn’t be nearly so creepy if it looked more crude, nor if it looked indistinguishable from a regular face. Which is to say that it’s a great illustration of the uncanny valley.

Just Plain Creepy Robots are cute. People tend to like them ... Mori dubbed the dip in the graph where the aversion occurs “the uncanny valley.” But Karl MacDorman, associate dean at the Indiana ...

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 ...

In fact, he thinks that any artificial agent, from a robot to a chatbot, can elicit uncanny valley reactions. He points to a recent study that showed that simple text chatbots seem less creepy ...

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 has been used to explain our adverse reactions to all sorts of almost-humans from zombies, androids and corpses to the creepy clowns recently terrorising North America.

Many others compared Zara’s made up look to the mother character in the famously creepy children’s movie “Coraline.” “Uncanny valley” is the term used to describe the uncomfortable ...

“The point is that to enjoy stories, we generally must feel empathy for the heroes, so they shouldn’t look creepy,” he says. Evocation of the uncanny valley, he explains, “is probably just ...

there's something about it that's really creepy and kind of unsettling.” “What's so cool about the uncanny valley is that it can be used to create a sense of horror, if you want it to,” said ...

Still, one makeup trend upping the creepy factor is known as "Uncanny Valley makeup." The term Uncanny Valley was created by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, who theorized the closer to human ...