“This robot will someday bring Groot and other characters to life ” “ He walks, he waves, he probably falls over in a strong breeze. ” T here's a new adorable robot in town, and this one may one day convince you that your favorite Disney character is real. Disney’s R&D labs, commonly known as its Imagineering team , does some extremely impressive and expressive things with robots. It’s made mechanical stunt doubles , lifelike alien Na’vi , and, uh, this skinless weirdo . But the company’s latest creation looks like it quite literally walked out of a Disney movie. Codenamed ‘ Project Kiwi ’ , an in-development robotics platform under Imagineering ,t he result of more than three years of work, is a small robot that can move and act on its own and take the ...
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