The viral "uncanny valley" makeup trend is taking over TikTok with more than 40 million views as creators are trying to spook their viewers with their scary good makeup skills.

Conquering The Uncanny Valley. The challenge of creating “acceptable” robots and AI is as much of a psychological and societal problem as it is a technical one.

The uncanny valley is the scientific explanation for why we all find clowns or corpses creepy. And just when we thought nothing could be more alarming than clowns, scientists have found an even ...

Generally called the uncanny valley makeup trend, it involves creators using makeup to appear as hyper-realistic bots. Some of the videos under this trend have received up to 13 million likes on ...

"Uncanny Valley makeup is a look that subtly distorts reality," makeup artist Gabrielle Alvarez tells POPSUGAR. "It casts an eerie effect that seems human but is very clearly not when you take a ...

Basically, humans comfortably engage with robots up until they reach the drop-off point, or valley, along the curve. That's when robots become too human-like and begin to make us feel unsettled ...

Natalie Wolchover is a reporter for Simons Science News. She is on Twitter. Updated March 8, 2013, 10:46 AM Computer-generated imagery works great for background special effects. But applied to ...