While many tout the advent of humanoid robots, others feel uncomfortable and find them creepy – an effect roboticist Masahiro Mori called “the uncanny valley”. Uncanny or not, life-like ...

And how does the uncanny valley blur the lines ... like industrial robots—purely mechanical with no likeness to us. When objects weakly resemble real humans, like toys, stuffed animals or ...

Osaka, Japan – Even if an android's appearance is so realistic that it could be mistaken ... Until now, when allowing robots that can move many parts of their face, like androids, to display ...