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Mar 03, 2021
Your favorite brunch foods are thousands of years old
Ötzi the Iceman ate pancakes and bacon—and other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.
Oct 23, 2015
Japanese Robot Annoys People Until They Talk To It
“Talking Ally” is more of an irritating acquaintance
Apr 21, 2015
Creepy Robot That Imitates Facial Expressions May Soon Greet You At Hotels
A face only a robot mother could love
Jul 12, 2012
Video: A Robot With More Lifelike Facial Expressions Tries to Escape the Uncanny Valley
The “uncanny valley” principle–the idea that when robots (or politicians) look human but not quite realistic enough, it makes real...
Jun 12, 2012
Original Paper Discussing “Uncanny Valley” Now Available in English
Translated officially from the Japanese for the first time
Feb 03, 2012
Video: PopSci’s Favorite Japanese Fembot Gets a Modeling Job at the Mall
Add 'mannequin' to the list of jobs being replaced by robots
Feb 12, 2011
Video: ‘Affetto,’ A Disembodied Japanese Baby Head, Takes Uncanny Valley to New Depths
Does a more realistic robot face look less creepy? You be the judge
Oct 27, 2010
Video: Creepy Japanese Expression-Mimicking Robot Hangs Out In Hospitals, “Comforting” Patients
As if being laid up in the hospital wasn’t traumatic enough already, imagine having a humanoid robot coming to visit...
Apr 05, 2010
Japanese Geminoid F Bot Realistically Mimics Human Facial Expressions, Speech
The latest in the Geminoid series of eerie clones
