Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer’s camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just ... I did think he was a bit uncanny." Kaspar has been created ...

animated statues and automated objects more than two millennia ago represent the very first inklings of the Uncanny Valley effect.

What Is the Uncanny Valley? The uncanny valley hypothesis states that artificial characters and objects that are almost but not fully human-like will trigger a deep sense of unease. To depict this ...

In the case of objects falling into the uncanny valley, the recognition can actually be negative. They recall humanity, inviting us to empathize as we might with a real human, but imperfections in ...

(We like humanoid objects up to a point, but when they cross a threshold of realism without actually being real, we find them repulsive.) But the notion of the uncanny dates back farther than that ...

Historically, male Surrealists have portrayed women in rather uncanny ways, presenting them as fetishised or infantilised objects rather than as fully dimensional humans. The Surrealist pieces in ...