Hundreds of studies exploring ways to promote smooth human-robot interaction have been carried out in recent years. In general, scientists agree that as robots begin to appear more humanlike, people ...

On the surface, creating humanoid robots makes a lot of sense. After all, we look at ourselves so much that interacting with something that has a similar appearance should be easier to accept into our ...

From the Maschinenmensch in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Roy Batty in Blade Runner, there’s no shortage of automatons providing their different takes on the human condition, yet few exude the sheer ...

Banks have been pitched on the idea of using Sophia AI, a humanlike robot developed by Hanson Robotics, to interact with customers, but they have so far held out. One might suspect that most bankers — ...

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 TikTok trend features users doing their makeup to appear like unsettling, humanoid creatures to invoke an uneasy feeling called the “uncanny valley,” which researchers believe is caused by ...