Introduced by Japan’s Masahiro Mori, the “Uncanny Valley” principle states that the more a humanoid robot strives and fails to mimic human appearance, the less appealing it is to humans. In yet ...

With people wearing masks so much of the time now, it can be difficult to tell what expression is on someone's face. A new system can reportedly do so, though, utilizing cameras mounted on their ...

Making a friend smile has never been so easy, or creepy. New software can copy your expression and paste it onto another person's face - on a computer screen at least. This results in a creepy effect ...

In the future, we might be able to command other people’s smiles. In a paper presented at the 2015 SIGGRAPH Asia conference, researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck ...

Meet the WD-2, a robot that looks just like, well, just like anyone. It has a face made of a rigid yet elastic material called Septom, which, when rods are pushed into the rear surface at any of 17 ...

Source: Photo elements from Cameron Ritchie and Brandon Morrison — Creative Commons License I was working on an attention exercise with my young Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Ranger. A colleague ...