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By Mar 3, 2021
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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.
By Oct 23, 2015
Technology

Japanese Robot Annoys People Until They Talk To It

“Talking Ally” is more of an irritating acquaintance
By Apr 21, 2015
Technology

Creepy Robot That Imitates Facial Expressions May Soon Greet You At Hotels

A face only a robot mother could love
By Jul 12, 2012
Technology

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...
By Jun 12, 2012
Technology

Original Paper Discussing “Uncanny Valley” Now Available in English

Translated officially from the Japanese for the first time
By Feb 3, 2012
Technology

Video: PopSci’s Favorite Japanese Fembot Gets a Modeling Job at the Mall

Add 'mannequin' to the list of jobs being replaced by robots
By Feb 2, 2012
Technology

Mitt Romney: The Uncanny Candidate?

Does this man have a robot problem?
By Feb 12, 2011
Technology

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
By Oct 27, 2010
Technology

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...
By Apr 5, 2010
Technology

Japanese Geminoid F Bot Realistically Mimics Human Facial Expressions, Speech

The latest in the Geminoid series of eerie clones