Disney Teaches Its Animatronics Not to Be Classless Brutes

In an effort to make how robots move and interact with human being feel less clumsy and uncomfortable , Disney Research , working with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany , are developing a more natural approach to the problem by exhaustively studying how humans interact .

In fact , using motion gaining control suits , the study was taken one stair further . The goal of this finicky research was to better how a automaton gives , or takes something from a human . So the researchers recorded two human going through the motions of passing an aim between them , and this was then compiled into a database that a robot can apply to recognise when it ’s being given something , and automatically reach out to receive it without hold .

There ’s still quite a bit of finessing needed to make the actual handoff seem far more vivid , but in addition to making the animatronic inhabitants at the Disney parks a little less creepy-crawly , the enquiry assure to improve how our next robot maids and butlers interact with us . [ Disney ResearchviaGizmag ]