The researchers explain the strange mix between natural and artificial makes it hard for our brains to categorize, like the uncanny valley effect in sound-form. The uncanny valley occurs similarly ...

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 ...

Marvel Rivals’ Season 1 update will introduce The Fantastic Four to the game, but one hero’s design is proving rather unsettling to look at.

For those that are unaware, Androids are often judged by where they fall on the uncanny valley curve, a graph that maps human revulsion to robots that closely resemble humans but are just a bit ...

Before I get into telling you just how good the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N really is – and believe me, it’s fantastic – I need to explain the theory of the uncanny valley. First hypothesised in 1970 ...