WHAT IS THE UNCANNY VALLEY? The uncanny valley is a hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost, but not entirely, like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The valley in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot’s lifelikeness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley) YEAR CREATED: 2008 “High End Gallery Art”