# [Lecture: 'Uncanny Valley' Is Not What You Think It Is](https://wknd.app/r/zrejhz/lecture-uncanny-valley-is-not-what-you-think-it-is)

- When: 2026-11-05 18:30-20:00 (America/New_York)
- Scarcity: one_day
- Cadence: once
- Where: Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, 1150 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20036 (38.9045, -77.04219)
- Ages: all ages
- Price: free
- Category: reading
- Topics: japanese-culture, lecture, robotics, history-of-science
- About: Historian of science Dr. Yulia Frumer reconsiders the 'uncanny valley,' the famous idea about human unease with near-human robots that originated in Japanese robotics. At the Japan Information & Culture Center, 1150 18th Street NW. Free.
- Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-uncanny-valley-is-not-what-you-think-it-is-tickets-2002719829923
- Feed: [DMV cultural events](https://wknd.app/f/bngusz/dmv-cultural-events)

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