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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 ...

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 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.