Most Pokémon take the shape of animals, plants, or objects. A selection, though, has adopted such human-like qualities that they enter the uncanny valley. Pokémon are meant to be seen as pets, but in ...

In the mid-2010s, videos of eerily human-like robots began to flood social media. Meant to showcase technological progress, they instead drew widespread discomfort. The faces moved, blinked, and even ...

A Chinese robotics company has unveiled a creepy robotic head with eerily human-like facial expressions and movements. In an unnerving video, the robot's disembodied face sits on a workshop table as ...

A new biomimetic robot named Moya has debuted in China, designed with near-adult human proportions and capable of realistic ...

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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we look back at the week’s biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta’s new superintelligence lab to the dark money group funding Democratic influencers. You ...