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Meet Disney's rollerblading robot prototype

The project is meant to bring more character and relatability to robotic beings
By Emmett Smith  on 
Disney's robot prototype sitting on stage wearing a pair of roller skates.
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Disney revealed its latest robot prototype at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The child-like robot climbed out of a box onto the stage in a pair of roller skates. To help bring the robot to life, engineers used motion capture to more directly integrate the human aspects of a physical performance and add a more relatable personality to the machine.


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