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 ...

Where astronomers thought there was one brown dwarf, there’s actually two. And the object they studied isn’t just any ordinary brown dwarf. Gliese 229B was the first known brown dwarf ...

Humanoid robots like this one, photographed in Dallas in 2010, aren't the only things that can trigger an uncanny valley reaction. We can detect if something's off even if the stimulus is more ...

(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 ...

“What I argue in my book is that dolls are completely liminal objects.” In “Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture,” Koné offers a new term to sum up his argument: doll thinking. He ...

The uncanny feat is the result of new technology using engineered living skin tissue and human-like ligaments to give robots a more natural smile, according to Tokyo University researchers who ...