Natalie Wolchover is a reporter for Simons Science News. She is on Twitter. Updated March 8, 2013, 10:46 AM Computer-generated imagery works great for background special effects. But applied to ...

Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori’s famous Uncanny Valley hypothesis proposes that near-perfect ... But those instinctual flavor-tracking systems continue to operate in the background of ...

The “Conjuring” film series most famously features the notorious Annabelle doll, a prime example of the use of the “uncanny valley” in cinema. The demonic nun figure that appears across a few of the ...

The uncanny valley extends beyond humanoid robots, affecting perceptions of any unnatural depiction of living beings, including AI-generated aliens, as shown below, and animals, as demonstrated in ...

• The uncanny valley effect depends on age, country and background of the subjects. For instance, it is noticeably weaker for gamers, as shown by Katja Zibrek et al. Possibly, ...

The viral "uncanny valley" makeup trend is taking over TikTok with more than 40 million views as creators are trying to spook their viewers with their scary good makeup skills.