A research team from Osaka University has created a technology enabling androids to dynamically convey mood states like "excited" or "sleepy" by generating facial movements modeled as overlapping, ...

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 ...

For $175,000 you too can have a hyper-realistic full-body ... approachable and avoided the “uncanny valley” effect that creeps people out about almost-human robots in some cases.

A disembodied woman’s head mugged and grimaced, aping the facial expressions of a user on a nearby laptop as visitors to the China Humanoid Robot Developer ... firmly in "uncanny valley ...