Disney's newest robot demonstrates collaborative cuteness

https://spectrum.ieee.org/disney-robot-2666681104

by kungfudoi • 2 years ago

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tamimio• 2 years ago

That’s a walking nightmare, not sure what’s cute about it.. that being said, I wished they talked more about the technicalities being on IEEE than just advertising Disney.

actionfromafar• 2 years ago

I thought it advertised the new labor camp.

paradox460• 2 years ago

Fwiw this is spectrum, not proceedings. Spectrum has always been a bit more pop, closer to popular science than a real journal. I remember their goofy renders of folding computers in the early 00s looking like something right out of popular science

Animats• 2 years ago

Nice.

Disney did something like that once before. They had a dinosaur pulling a cart in one of the parks. The cart was doing most of the work. The legs of the dinosaur were playing an animation, not propelling the cart.

Eventually they'll have free-roaming intelligent robots in the parks, but not yet.

ijhuygft7762• 2 years ago

That's not a robot...

jagged-chisel• 2 years ago

What definition of “robot” are we using here?

dylan6042• 2 years ago

I imagine like the "robot" in MIB where they open it up, and there is something not mechanical inside

ijhuygft7762• 2 years ago

for me, it is software that controls moving hardware in a way that is "smart", but not predictable (for lack of a better word).

Examples of some things that aren't robots:

- Remote controlled thing that looks like a robot

- An automata that is pre-programmed to do the same thing over and over

- a "robot" arm in a car factory that paints the same thing over and over

- etc...

In other words, it needs to be somewhat smart

kypro• 2 years ago

What's going on with that huge pixelated gif for the lead image? Could they not use webm?

taspeotis• 2 years ago

iOS doesn’t support WebM, so no.

jlund-molfese• 2 years ago

It hasn't always been this way, but Safari on iOS (and therefore all iOS browsers) and on Mac have supported WebM for years.

6th• 2 years ago

I wish I could delete whole sites like GIPHY - WHY DO YOU EVEN EXIST‽

dylan6042• 2 years ago

how about a format with a codec designed for actual motion video.

slim• 2 years ago

it has it's arms collaborating with it's wheels

Rallen89• 2 years ago

Not directly related but Disney has a YouTube channel that irregularly posts interesting developments in animation and human tracking. (for animation hopefully)

https://www.youtube.com/@DisneyResearchHub

Disney's newest robot demonstrates collaborative cuteness

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