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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...

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Disney 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…

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Disney Research 3D prints animated eyes for interactive characters

Disney 3d prints transparent optical fibers to create expressive eyes for interactive characters and toys.

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Disney’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...

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Disney 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...

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Disney 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.

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Disney 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 […]

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Disney 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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