The team demoed the technology with a humanoid animatronic bust.
To make interactions with the robot more realistic, the team programmed movement into not only the eyes, but also the neck and eyebrows.
Disney World could one day feature some of the most realistic animatronic characters on the planet, making your stay that much more magical. Imagine robots that can accurately follow your gaze while talking to you, raise their eyebrows, and even break eye contact like any other stranger periodically would.
Scientists at Disney Research, the network of labs supporting the company s technological endeavors, have recently devised a new system for creating a lifelike robotic gaze.
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Thought LeadersAndrew Spielberg and Alexander AminiRobotics Researchers
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Soft robot development could benefit from an algorithm that optimizes sensor placement allowing such machines to better ‘understand’ their environments. Ph.D. students in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Alexander Amini and Andrew Spielberg, have developed an algorithm to assist engineers with sensor placement to optimize soft robotics designs.
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Our research focuses on soft robots, a new
breed of robots of growing interest in the robotics community. Rigid robots have a rigid skeleton with discrete joints. By contrast, soft robots are flexible throughout their body, and typically do not have a joint structure. While rigid robots can be modeled quite compactly - you simply need to know the state of all