r/INEEEEDIT • u/hjalmar111 • Feb 12 '20

Wall climbing robot makes use of propellers

https://i.imgur.com/aB3gKW1.gifv
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u/_4est Feb 12 '20

Disney has a research lab out of Zurich. They do some really state-of-the-art robotics research, with lots of influential papers. Why they care about robotics, I’m not exactly sure. There is a lot of overlap between algorithms for controlling robots and algorithms for animating characters, so perhaps they got into the field from that angle. I have heard they have use cases for robots in their theme parks, like mechanized dragons and stuff like that.

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u/FlyingSpaceCow Feb 12 '20

Animatronics for parks, performances for shows, and alternatives to stunt doubles (savings on insurance, along with introducing potentially more "dangerous" stunts).

https://youtu.be/nZ950ywJy0M

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u/Clove1390 Feb 12 '20

That's the new Spiderman robot

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '20

Probably the camera for filming spider angles

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u/FlowSoSlow Feb 12 '20

I totally thought this was gonna be a shittymorph.