Coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in the 1970s, the uncanny valley describes the cold and eerie feeling we experience when something seems not quite human.

Why "Uncanny Valley" Human Look-Alikes Put Us on Edge The sensation may arise when the viewer's brain begins to consider an artificial figure as a possible human By Jeremy Hsu & InnovationNewsDaily ...

A FACE robot that can mimic human facial expressions such as sadness or happiness still fails the uncanny valley. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

“Implementing human-like ‘thinking faces’ in androids enhances perceptions of ‘being in thought,’ genuineness, human-likeness, and appropriateness while reducing the uncanny valley ...

Unease beyond the uncanny valley: How people react to the same faces. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 08 / 210830104914.htm ...

The term “uncanny valley” was coined by Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in 1970. ... having crude limbs and faces, which triggers human’s brains to expect human movement.

Answering the question of what makes a face human-like is not that easy. In 1970, Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori proposed the so-called "uncanny valley hypothesis".

Certainly, The Mummy Returns wasn’t the only casualty of our early expeditions into the uncanny valley. Pixar also learned the dangers of animating human faces the hard way in an early short ...

They asked 66 workers on the online marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk to rate the faces on a scale from 1 to 100, based on how mechanical and how human they looked.

“In this study, we managed to replicate human appearance to some extent by creating a face with the same surface material and structure as humans,” professor Shoji Takeuchi, the team leader ...

According to the United Nations, on November 15, 2022, the world population reached 8 billion people. Eight billion faces, of which each one of us can remember about 5,000, on average. And we ...