The Uncanniest Valley: What Happens When Robots Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves?

The "uncanny valley" is a term coined by Japanese roboticist Mashahiro Mori in 1970 to describe the strange fact that, as robots become more human-like, we relate to them better--but only to a point. The "uncanny valley" is this point. The issue is that, as robots start to approach true […]