Michael Calore: Right. She's been in the news lately for a lot of reasons, and we'll get into those later, as you mentioned. One of the most obvious is that she is Elon Musk's mother and Elon Musk has ...

When things are even just a little, tiny bit off, we notice. That’s the theory behind the “uncanny valley,” the idea that the closer humanoid robots look to real people, the more that subtle ...

On Uncanny Valley this week, our hosts talk about the ... but he has made remarks about the Democratic Party being anti-family and anti-child and has suggested that the votes of people with ...

There are elements of the Rachel Zegler-starring live-action remake that work. Then, there are the dwarfs. Snow White Gets ...

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 ...

I ended CES by finishing a book. It was Uncanny Valley, a memoir from New Yorker contributor Anna Wiener, which comes out on Tuesday. It’s not a polemic, and, despite the many (thinly veiled ...

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 ...