A few years ago, Charlie Kaufman (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”) and Duke Johnson (“Community”) made the stop-motion animation film “Anomalisa” with eerily realistic puppets. I watched the ...

In 1970, robotics professor Masahiro Mori coined the phrase "uncanny valley." The core of the hypothesis states that as robots become more human-like in appearance, our emotional response to them ...

LOS ANGELES — Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out. Most recently, moviegoers complained about the near-realistic depiction of humans in Disney's ...

And I'm Michele Norris. Whether or not "Avatar" wins at the Oscars this Sunday, the film's high-tech wizardry has already won praise and drawn record audiences. But no film has yet achieved the ...

DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had some exciting news for the desktop computer at Techonomy Monday. According to the head of the animation company, new collaboration with chip-maker Intel is ...

Partway through the latest Medal of Honor game, you nearly die in an ambush. Your AI buddy saves you, then helps you to your feet. It should be a poignant moment; instead it’s chilling, because his ...