There’s something uncanny about the office. It has furniture and lights and doors, but nothing you would ever put in your own house. You eat in a little room they tell you to, wear drab office clothes ...

Creating realistic avatars for social interaction in 3D media has been a longtime dream of many people. Avatars that you can recognize create emotional attachment, making interactions more efficient, ...

In the mid-2010s, videos of eerily human-like robots began to flood social media. Meant to showcase technological progress, they instead drew widespread discomfort. The faces moved, blinked, and even ...