Disney is producing flying humanoid robots that can act as stunt doubles for the more delicate "hero" animatronic figures in its parks, Business Insider noted.
For years Disneyland parks have included animatronics in their displays but now Disney plans to take things a few steps further with performing robotics that can fly and perform stunts midair.
The "stuntronics" project was born from an experiment that saw a robot performing acrobatic stunts, which led to the development of autonomous aerial performers that can self-correct in order to perform stunts in the air, Tech Crunch reported.
Tony Dohi, Principal R&D Imagineer at Disney, spoke to the news outlet about the project, describing it as a realization that came about after Disney saw where its characters were headed on screen.
"Whether they be Star Wars characters, or Pixar characters, or Marvel characters or our own animation characters, is that they’re doing all these things that are really, really active," he said. "And so that becomes the expectation our park guests have that our characters are doing all these things on screen — but when it comes to our attractions, what are our animatronic figures doing? We realized we have kind of a disconnect here."
Enter Disney’s stuntronics robot, which according to the company, "knows when to tuck its knees to perform a somersault, when to pull its arms to twist and even when to slow down its spin to make sure it sticks that perfect landing," Deadline noted.
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