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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Augmented reality app maker Aurasma demonstrated how its software can bring magazines, posters and any enabled object to life by simply pointing a smartphone's web camera at it.

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.