Imagine a robot character at a Disney park, like a little droid, that can chat or play with people. Normally, a human operator controls it remotely, using their own skills and gut feelings to make the robot act friendly, shy, or excited. This project from Disney Research wants to make the robot smart enough to do this on its own, without someone constantly steering it.
Disney has just released the first trailer for their Lilo & Stitch live-action remake and it teases the stunning scenery, primarily shot on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. This film closely follows the original 2002 animated film’s storyline, centering on Lilo who adopts what she thinks is a strange dog from a shelter (Stitch),
Disney Research’s BDX droid greeted Pollen’s Reachy 2 during a trade show and dancing promptly ensued after a short conversation. The former is the same robot seen Disney theme parks worldwide, including at Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland and Disney World.
Big Fan Games announced Disney TRON: Catalyst, a story-driven isometric action game that is set to launch in 2025 on the PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch. Players get to leverage Exo, a highly resilient and resourceful program with an incredible ability to initiate time loops.
Disney’s BD-X robot droids can not only walk using their own two legs, but also navigate the omnidirectional HoloTile floor with ease. What you may not know is that the robots are mostly 3D printed, and use modular hardware.
Disney research engineers have made it possible for a robot to learn policies from unstructured motion data. First, they extracted a latent space encoding by training a variational autoencoder and then taking short windows of motion from unstructured data as input.
Disney’s HoloTile floor demo at D23 shows the future of augmented reality gaming, and it’s basically a high-tech omni-directional treadmill. Put simply, it simulates the feeling of movement without actually having to move, and it can also detect real-world objects for an even more immersive experience.
