Chery's use of blond humanoid robot salespeople, while attracting attention, likely faces challenges due to the uncanny valley effect, but serves as a valuable step in developing future human-robot ...

Part of Hollywood's cohort of ethical AI advocates, Natasha Lyonne is walking the talk with her upcoming feature directorial ...

For Poilievre, who had once been seen as the next prime minister, this “Trump effect” has turned toxic. In February, Pierre Poilievre looked unstoppable. His populist tone, fierce criticism of “woke” ...

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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the trial between Meta and the FTC. You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe ...

Surprisingly, more realistic avatars were rated as more competent, benevolent, and trustworthy than cartoon-like ones, defying the expected “uncanny valley” effect. While male avatars were seen as ...

As for gender, the effect was partial: male avatars were perceived as more competent, but no significant differences were found in terms of integrity or benevolence. "With our findings, we could not ...

Seeing human-like robots, dolls, and AI-generated faces can trigger eerie, put-off feelings towards the figure, a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley. Though these figures look almost human, there ...

However, Baake emphasizes that while no uncanny valley effect was found here, future studies should test a broader range of realism levels to investigate whether an intermediate uncanny valley ...

The Uncanny Valley effect is experienced at different levels by different individuals, depending on the familiarity of the subject materials. Designers can bridge the valley with changes like the ...