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 ...

There’s something uncanny about ... we are with our own faces. When things are even just a little, tiny bit off, we notice. That’s the theory behind the “uncanny valley,” the idea that ...

A well-timed “furrowed face”—a subtle expression we instinctively recognize as “thinking”—can make androids appear less ...

White eventually finds herself setting forth to return her kingdom to its former glory after a failed murder attempt and encounters quite a few familiar faces ... into the Uncanny Valley as ...