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Disney Just Developed The Most Adorable Walking Robot
Step aside BB-8, this robot’s bipedal A portly, orange-tawny blob-man jaunts across the screen monitor on two legs, arms and head oddly stationary. The animation depicts a project out of Disney Research, an R&D arm of the entertainment giant Walt Disney Company DIS -0.74% that collaborates with academia. As the creature ambles and wobbles, it looks like a chocolate covered Pillsbury Doughboy sporting a beer belly. (Lay off those carbs, Doughboy! Hee hee.) “Here, we develop a bipedal robot that is designed after an animation character, and generate a character-like walking motion for the robot,” the researchers declare in their paper, which they presented on Tuesday at this year’s IEEE…
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Disney Beachbot Robot Creates Amazing Sand Drawings
Disney Study in collaboration with ETH Zurich have designed and created a robot that can create spectacular sand drawings. The robot was named Beachbot and resembles an orange and white turtle. The robot even has a rounded prime and protrusions that were made to look like the robot has a head and a pair of eyes. The Disney Beachbot robot can draw sophisticated designs on sand using a special rake, which earned it the reputation of the first autonomous robot that can draw sand art, ever created. The Beachbot robot can receive commands for creating sand drawings via an application. The Disney Beachbot robot is measures approximately two feet in…
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Mickey Mouse and All His Pals Robot Vinylmations at Disney Parks
Disney Parks Vinylmations 3″ series features robot versions of many of our Disney Characters! And to commemorate this series, Disney is releasing a 9″ Mickey Mouse Robot figure as well! Which vinylmation do you love more?