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 ...

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 ...

Most of us aren’t aware of what our natural facial expression is saying about us — without us saying a word! To anyone who isn’t sure: ask someone you trust to tell you the truth about your natural ...

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 ...

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 ...