Disney Research

Robots might have already taken over industries like manufacturing, but when it comes to more creative endeavors,…

One of the obvious giveaways that you’re interacting with a robot is their blank dead-eyed stare. The eyes don’t…

In a few short years, neural-network-powered automated face swaps have gone from being mildly convincing to eerily…

After first revealing what many speculated to be robotic stunt doubles several years ago, today the official Disney…

The walls of your house keep the roof up, give your family some privacy, and maybe provide a place to hang some art.…

Are you cool with hugs? What about the most all-encompassing hug you’ve ever had? That just about sums up how Disney…

When you strap on all of the gear required for a modern, immersive, virtual reality experience, you’re all but…

So far 2016 has been a wild ride, but there’s one less thing to keep you awake at night, terrified about the future,…

As we work towards crossing the uncanny valley so that computer-generated humans don’t look like horrific plastic…

In Disney’s continued quest to breath life into all of its cartoon characters, it might be going beyond a mere…

The easiest way to make a robot as dexterous and capable as a human being is to simply let a human control it.…

Before LEDs and lasers came along, video projectors would shine white light through a rotating color wheel to…

Not even walls can stop Disney’s and ETH Zurich’s new four-wheeled robot called VertiGo that can quickly transition…

Although undetectable by our limited five senses, most electrical devices emit small amounts of unique…

Wifi networks aren’t ubiquitous yet, and other wireless communication protocols like Bluetooth can suck battery…

Given Disney’s amusement parks are packed full of audio-animatronic characters, it only makes sense that the…

In an attempt to make its theme parks even more magical, Disney’s Research division is working to develop bi-pedal…

In an effort to bring more functionality and interactivity to a device that is often just a large monolothic…

If you rely on just a single camera while traveling, it’s easy to organize your photos by time and date when you get…

Your typical 3D printer works by layering melted plastic to eventually build up a solid 3D object, but what happens…