by Erik Kain on January 3, 2012
The closer human replicas get to the human face the greater the sense of revulsion we feel toward the replica. Or so the theory of the Uncanny Valley, first proposed by Japanese roboticist Masihiro Mori, goes. Masihiro Mori’s original theory proposed that the closer robots got to human beings, the greater our sense of revulsion [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 14, 2011
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 leading to rendering that is 50 to 70 times faster than anything being used today. This has far-reaching implications that go well beyond the world of [...]
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