Disney's First autonomous Audio-Animatronics

 



During summer of 2009, I have had the opportunity to work as a summer associate at the Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development. I was given the responsibility of developing the vision component of the world's first autonomous Audio-Animatronics. In 3 months, we developed a robot to be responsive and reactive to the emotion of its audience in real-time.



 The show  went live  at Disney D23 during my internship.

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This was a major landmark for Disney towards developing an autonomous robotic show without involving any puppeteers.

Here is a relevant blog entry from Disney. Below is the recorded version of the show from Disney D23.