Whenever I see an overpass or billboard that’s been tagged, I worry about the tagger and the danger they exposed themselves to in order to get that cherry spot. Perhaps this spray paint-toting drone developed by ETH Zurich and Disney Research will take some of the danger out of the hobby. It could also be used for murals and stuff, I guess.
View More This autonomous spray-painting drone is a 21st-century tagger’s dreamCategory: disney research
Disney tech smooths out bad CG hair days
Disney is unequivocally the world’s leader in 3D simulations of hair — something of a niche talent in a way, but useful if you make movies like Tangled, where hair is basically the main character. A new bit of research from the company makes it easier for animators to have hair follow their artistic intent […]
View More Disney tech smooths out bad CG hair daysStickman is Disney’s new headless acrobatic robot
The team at Disney Research never fails to deliver fascinating (if not always particularly useful) experiments. Take Stickman. The robot is essentially one long limb, capable of some cool acrobatic maneuvers. The system, detailed in a new paper from DR titled “Towards a Human Scale Acrobatic Robotic,” has two degrees of freedom and a pendulum […]
View More Stickman is Disney’s new headless acrobatic robotThis puffy robotic arm looks like Baymax and it was actually built by researchers at Disney
Disney Research has built a soft robotic arm that looks like it could easily belong to a real-life Baymax, if the movie “Big Hero 6” was about to come to life. Read more…More about Disney, Mashable Video, Soft Robots, Disney Research, and Big…
View More This puffy robotic arm looks like Baymax and it was actually built by researchers at DisneyThis soft robotic arm is straight out of Big Hero 6 (it’s even from Disney)
The charming robot at the heart of Disney’s Big Hero 6, Baymax, isn’t exactly realistic, but its puffy bod is an (admittedly aspirational) example of the growing field of soft robotics. And now Disney itself has produced a soft robot arm that seems like it could be a prototype from the movie.
View More This soft robotic arm is straight out of Big Hero 6 (it’s even from Disney)Robot posture and movement style affects how humans interact with them
It seems obvious that the way a robot moves would affect how people interact with it, and whether they consider it easy or safe to be near. But what poses and movement types specifically are reassuring or alarming? Disney Research looked into a few of the possibilities of how a robot might approach a simple interaction with a nearby human.
View More Robot posture and movement style affects how humans interact with them