Geminoid DK: An ultra-realistic android announced (w/Video)

Monday, March 7, 2011 - 16:31 in Mathematics & Economics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The uncanny valley is getting smaller every day. For those of you not familiar with that concept, the uncanny valley is a term, first coined by researchers in Japan, that explains the innate human ability to know when a humanoid robot is just not human, a creepy feeling. A new generation of ultra-realistic robots may make these distinctions harder to make.

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