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Humanoid Robots for Entertainment

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Humanoid Robotics: A Reference

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Entertainment is an important application for humanoid robots because anthropomorphism is critical to the physical embodiment of characters, many of which have humanlike appearances and motions. This chapter first reviews the history of Audio-Animatronics®, the family of robots used in Disney theme parks for over half a century. We then discuss the unique requirements of robotics for entertainment application and introduce some of the recent developments in robotics research at Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Research.

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  1. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, U.S. Inc., Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA

    Steven “Mouse” Silverstein

  2. Disney Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Katsu Yamane

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  1. Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Ambarish Goswami

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat

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Silverstein, S.“., Yamane, K. (2019). Humanoid Robots for Entertainment. In: Goswami, A., Vadakkepat, P. (eds) Humanoid Robotics: A Reference. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6046-2_111

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