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It was Uncanny Valley, a memoir from New Yorker contributor ... but so were a lot of people. The novelty was burning off; the industry's pervasive idealism was increasingly dubious.

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 ...

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 ...