For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study by Raffaella Rumiati from SISSA ...

He used animation and other media to create worlds inhabited by anthropomorphic machines and industrious creatures. One ...

Then, the students viewed the same set of animate-to-inanimate faces. Again, those who thought they were cursed to die alone were less discerning about which faces counted as human.

The amount of creativity that goes into telling a meaningful story with little to no dialogue in less than ten minutes is what fascinates me most about Disney’s animated shorts. After just two minutes ...

Virginia Tech. (2001, May 22). When Shewanella Meets Goethite: Evidence Found Of Recognition Between Animate And Inanimate Objects. ScienceDaily.

I like stop motion in particular because I like the idea of inanimate objects coming alive. You could recreate it with CGI, but there’s just something about using raw, physical objects to tell your ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects ...

Objects don’t have feelings, but some people treat them like they do. It’s called anthropomorphizing, and it’s natural to do to objects and animals, experts say.

Tio is a British-made technology intended to "animate the world around you". Its Creator and Inventor kits enable children to transform everyday objects and materials - from drink bottles to ...

Yale researchers have created a robotic skin that they can wrap around inanimate objects to give them the ability to move.

When people feel sympathy for inanimate objects, they are anthropomorphizing, attributing human behaviors or feelings to animals or objects who cannot feel the same emotions as we do, Shepard said.