The phenomenon can be traced back more than 2,000 years, to classical antiquity. The most ancient examples of an Uncanny Valley response to artificial life occur in Homer’s Odyssey (ca. 700 BC).

Speaking of the Uncanny Valley, my wife and I also saw Peter Jackson's version of King Kong a few weeks ago. I frankly was blown away by the film; both by the plot, the special effects and especially ...

However, Baake emphasizes that while no uncanny valley effect was found here, future studies should test a broader range of realism levels to investigate whether an intermediate uncanny valley ...

The Uncanny Valley Effect The "uncanny valley effect" is a term used by those who build robots, make animated movies, or design video games. It describes how people find human-like robots and ...

But even using the generally adorable panda for their study, they found that the close-but-not-quite-panda-like pandas could elicit the uncanny valley effect. There were other interesting observations ...

One was less humanlike than R2D2, but still managed, perhaps by virtue of its appearing to have four eyes, to evoke the uncanny feeling in many observers. “You can get into the uncanny at all levels ...

Just in case you are unfamiliar with the Uncanny Valley, we’ve added the 30 Rock Clip which expertly illustrates this phenomenon. Additional reporting by Julia Carusillo.

"For a neuroscientist, the 'Uncanny Valley' is an interesting phenomenon," explains Dr Fabian Grabenhorst, a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Physiology, Development and ...