Animatronics

Lucky Dragon Boat Unleashes Fiery Wrath Upon Japan

Japan, if the Lucky Dragon boat turns on its owner and attacks Osaka with plumes of fire, you’re on your own. Lucky Dragon is a 49-foot aluminum half-boat, half-animatronic beast. It breathes fire. And on the off-chance it battles another Lucky Dragon, it breathes water as well. But don’t be too worried. While that lead…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 8

Animatronic Bride Robot Makes Weddings Seem Like Chuck-E-Cheese Outings

You know what would definitely make weddings more fun? Animatronic robots of the bride and groom. These "look-alike welcome robots" take the place of boring welcome boards and greet guests with details about the couple. The robot can be fashioned to look like an actual person, and can converse with people in pre-recorded snippets. When…

Tech News Elaine Chow Feb 17

Gizmodo’s Haunted Halloween Post

Welcome to Gizmodo’s Haunted Halloween Post. Turn of the lights and prepare to take a blood-curdling journey into the nether regions of animatronic hell. Unlike a traditional haunted house, there are no walls (except maybe the boundaries of your monitor), but each floor of this post is packed with pure evil. The story begins in…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Oct 31

WowWee White Tiger Cub Robot Is Unboxed, Unleashed

WowWee, makers of fine programmable robotic toys, is stepping back a bit with the “Alive” series of animatronic beasts sporting realistic skeletons that move according to how much attention they’re given. You can’t load custom Java code onto this White Tiger Cub though, so if that’s your thing, stick with the RoboSapiens or, perhaps, an…

Tech News John Mahoney Jul 22

Wall-E Has Gotten Loose And Is Roaming L.A. Streets

Disney’s adorable robot was spotted wandering the streets of L.A., in a fully animatronic version that looks just like the animated incarnation. Watch the video as he rolls up on the tips of his tracks, peers into the videographer’s lens, and waves. WALL-E even fields a few questions from passer-bys on the sidewalk . But…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 14

HD DVD’s Animatronic Secret Weapon Not Enough to Defeat Blu-ray

As if 1080p video, full-resolution audio, net connectivity and multi-tuner signal decoding wasn’t enough, Toshiba’s HD DVD team had even cooked up a system of embedded animatronic control before the format was put out of its misery. In this video left over from CES 2008, this little mechanical jazz band playing the Duke Ellington classic…

Tech News Benny Goldman Feb 25

BotBrain Robot Head Flaps its Eyelids, Makes Geekish Hearts Flutter

This animatronic head is sold as a kit so you can learn the fun of building a fully robotic nut that can “turn left and right,” has moving eyes, eyelids and a mouth that “changes expressions”—though presumably not into a sexy pout, sorry robo-sex fans. BotBrain even has sensors that let it react to its…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 12

Animatronic Sir Alan Fires You Whenever He Feels Like It

Maybe our friends in the UK recognize Sir Alan, but to our Stateside readers, just know that Sir Alan is kind of like their Donald Trump, star of The Apprentice, but with better hair. What we have here is an animatronic head of Sir Alan (like in Futurama) that spouts mean and nasty things to…

Gadgets Gizloco May 12

Pick Up Used Critters, Right Here

Did you ever wonder what happens to those props used in horror movies? Here’s a site that’s helping a special effects house get rid of a variety of animatronic critters, all of them used as props in motion pictures and TV shows. For instance, they are offering this scary-looking bat whose animatronic head nods and…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 3

Lucky Dragon Boat Unleashes Fiery Wrath Upon Japan

Animatronic Bride Robot Makes Weddings Seem Like Chuck-E-Cheese Outings

Gizmodo’s Haunted Halloween Post

WowWee White Tiger Cub Robot Is Unboxed, Unleashed

Wall-E Has Gotten Loose And Is Roaming L.A. Streets

HD DVD’s Animatronic Secret Weapon Not Enough to Defeat Blu-ray

BotBrain Robot Head Flaps its Eyelids, Makes Geekish Hearts Flutter

Animatronic Sir Alan Fires You Whenever He Feels Like It

Pick Up Used Critters, Right Here

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