Disney Research: Acrobat and Stunt Double Robots

[Phil12]

They need to catch up with Boston Dynamics:

 

[V_L_Raptor]

The bit that I'm thinking of came out of Brandeis University around 2000. Scientific American Frontiers featured it (http://www.chedd-angier.com/frontiers/season11.html#3) in a segment called "Robot Independence." (There used to be a really easy search engine for this on the PBS website, but it's since been removed. The video player on the Chedd-Angier website isn't what I'd call top tier.) You can read the transcript of the segment starting on page 15: http://www.chedd-angier.com/frontiers/transcripts/Season11_1103.pdf.

 

[MisterPenguin]

They need to catch up with Boston Dynamics:

atlas

 

[LieutLaww]

And Disney just created Westworld, good job

 

[JoeZer]

Aside from the Westworld similarity aspects, I'm also getting shades of Blade Runner and an anime series called Bubblegum Crisis hitting my brain...

 

[GlacierGlacier]

And Disney just created Westworld, good job

The codenames for the Star Wars Land(s) are Delos and Delos 2

 

[larryz]

They need to catch up with Boston Dynamics:

Ha... Chinese roboticists have been doing that for decades...

 

[V_L_Raptor]

Ha... Chinese roboticists have been doing that for decades...

Springs in the legs on a flipping, fuzzy quadruped are kids' toy stuff, by and large. If, however, you can get a top-heavy bipedal bot to flip in a manner that is kinematically similar to human movement and be able to self-correct spontaneously to maintain an upright stance... now you've got yourself some grant writing material.

 

[matt2394]

"All these moments lost...like tears in the rain. Time to die."

 

[senor_jorge]

SKYNET approves of this research.

 

[the.dreamfinder]

And Disney just created Westworld, good job

It’s not Westworld if guests can’t kill or have sex with the hosts, but it sure does cost a small fortune.

 

[GlacierGlacier]

Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters fame, has been working with WDI on this for the past year, according to his Twitter account

 

[larryz]

It’s not Westworld if guests can’t kill or have sex with the hosts, but it sure does cost a small fortune.

Does it count if the robot goes after your family when you mistreat its favorite box?

Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters fame, has been working with WDI on this for the past year, according to his Twitter account

I see what you did there...

 

[Hakunamatata]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

“Big things have small beginnings”

 

[the.dreamfinder]

This technology will save a lot of lives. Stunt deaths are thankfully rare, but one death is too many.

 

[Bairstow]

What they really need to work on for the stunt/FX industry are more convincing flailing dummies.

 

[larryz]

What they really need to work on for the stunt/FX industry are more convincing flailing dummies.

Do you mean like the guy who played Han in Solo?

 

[BoarderPhreak]

Ha... Chinese roboticists have been doing that for decades...

Now that's a dog I wouldn't feel bad about punting across the room.

 

[Princess Leia]

Now that's a dog I wouldn't feel bad about punting across the room.

 

[bclane]

atlas

Well that was nightmare inducing! Anyone else worried about Dan?