As we technologically weave our society into a more machine-centric fabric, machines are going to take on more and more human attributes. This means that robots will try to look and interact with us ...

Analysts expect the humanoid and service-robot markets to exceed $300 billion within the next decade as companies continue to ...

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 ...

Deep in the halls of the engineering school at Columbia University, professor Hod Lipson and his former student Jonathan ...

On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we introduce you to DoorDash’s new delivery robot and discuss what the growing robot population means for humans.

In the 1970s at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a roboticist named Masahiro Mori introduced a concept he called the “uncanny valley.” It describes a phenomenon Mori observed where the more lifelike ...