Disney’s face cloning creates more realistic (less creepy) animatronic robots
Creating realistic, humanoid robots seems to be one thing the technology world hasn’t conquered successfully yet. Humanoid robots always seem to look frightening — right in the deepest depths of the...
View ArticleDisney Research creates free air physical feedback device to compliment Kinect
How successful the Kinect motion controller has been as a gaming input device depends on who you talk to. It’s certainly been a success with homebrew developers happy to experiment with motion sensors…
View ArticleDisney Research 3D prints animated eyes for interactive characters
Disney 3d prints transparent optical fibers to create expressive eyes for interactive characters and toys.
View ArticleDisney’s Ishin-Denshin project turns your body into an audio transmitter
While the consumer electronics space continues to play with the idea of bone conduction for audio transmission without sticking something in your ear, Disney Research has created something they call...
View ArticleDisney Research creates tactile touchscreen by shocking your fingers
Touchscreens have done wonders making content and user interfaces more interactive, but there’s something missing. A touchscreen still just feels like a slab of glass, but your fingertips are jampacked...
View ArticleDisney replaces batteries with a paper generator
Interactive sheets of paper that can light up LEDs, sound a buzzer, or even power a display without a battery in sight.
View ArticleDisney has created a robot that can drive up walls
Walls are no match for Disney’s mobile rolling robot, the VertiGo. So, how does this bot defy gravity? It wasn’t easy. A key problem Disney’s ETH Zurich researchers ran into was maximizing the […]
View ArticleDisney Research prints realistic, textured 3D models using thermoforming
3D printing is a tremendous technology that’s on the verge of changing the world, but one can’t argue that as it is now it is very, very slow. To make anything intricate can […]
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