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 ...

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “uncanny valley” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but are a bit off bring fear and disgust to many observers. This effect ...

It is in the dwarves that we venture into the Uncanny Valley as the CG creations are a little unsettling in their appearances. The best way I found myself describing the likes of Doc, Sleepy ...