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Mannequin Monsters in Mexico | Episode 49

Way back during the COVID lockdowns, when the streets of Mexico City were quiet and empty of people, something else started walking them. Multiple witnesses reported encounters with humanoid entities that moved like mannequins. With stiff limbs, and lifeless arms, running on their tiptoes. Backwar…

Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?

In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori wrote an essay that said the closer robots come to lifelike, the more they unsettle humans. His theory became the Uncanny Valley, and science has been evaluating it – and what makes something creepy - in recent years. Learn all about it with Josh and Chuck in this …

Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?

In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori wrote an essay that said the closer robots come to lifelike, the more they unsettle humans. His theory became the Uncanny Valley, and science has been evaluating it – and what makes something creepy - in recent years. Learn all about it with Josh and Chuck in this …

The Iron Titan: Synthetic Ethics, Machine Consciousness, and the Golem Myth

The Iron Titan: Golem Legends and Synthetic EthicsWelcome to the workshop of the created, where ancient clay yields to silicon, carbon fiber, and the primordial dream of breathing life into the lifeless. Today, we step forward to ask a bolder, more haunting question: What happens when the sacred si…

Panic! At the AI Apoc@lyp$e... Seemingly Unrelated S2E6 w/Franklin Johnstone Didymus

There are so many chicken little's these days decrying the downfall of man at the hands of Large Language Models. There are also, a lot of grifters taking advantage of that panic to line their wallets or just feel alive if only for a moment. Which is why we are here to fight that misinformation and…

The Uncanny Valley: Why Almost-Human Robots Disturb Us

In this episode of Robotics, host Daniel Cole explores the uncanny valley phenomenon—the psychological response that makes almost-human robots deeply unsettling. Discover how Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori first identified this effect in 1970 and why our brains react negatively to entities that …

The Other: Inside Uncanny Valley 👤🎭

True monsters don't always 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 inhuman. Sometimes they look like us...but only 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 to fool you...🎭In 1970, Japanese roboticist 🤖 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙤 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙞 gave this unsettling phenomenon a name: the 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙮. 👤Now, that's something 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙 can exploit...🎬Whether that be 𝙀.𝙏.𝘼. 𝙃𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙣'𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎…