Disney’s robot of its character “Olaf” is incredibly impressive. It’s also kind of terrifying. This weekend, engineers at Disney Research Hub published a paper describing how they brought the beloved ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is a bright cold day in Reykjavik, sun streaming through her dormer window, when Ólöf Arnalds proclaims: “I ...

However, getting to grips with what is being sung is less straightforward as the lyrics of Spíra are in Icelandic – a demonstration of the bond of trust between non-Anglophone songwriters and ...

♪ Ding dong merrily on high - [Announcer] Experience the magic of the season with the St. Olaf Christmas Festival. Since 1912, this cherished tradition has brought together renowned student choirs and ...

Disney just revealed a new next-generation robotics entertainment figure of Olaf from Frozen that looks almost perfectly screen accurate. When I first saw the footage, I did a double take thinking ...

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is currently hosting “Freedom,” the largest-ever retrospective of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (1959-2023). Spanning four decades, the exhibition reveals an artist ...

Disney unveiled a next-generation, fully interactive robotic figure of Olaf from Frozen The robot uses AI (reinforcement learning) for graceful movement and is made of a soft “snow” material The ...

Disney has unveiled a new animatronic in the form of Olaf, the carrot-nosed snowman from the Frozen series of films. The robotic character will roam the streets of the upcoming World of Frozen (coming ...

WASHINGTON — Disney is known both for its lifelike animatronics and for the costumed characters roaming the company's theme parks. Their newest invention merges both, using everybody's favorite ...

The bolted-to-the-floor animatronics weren’t uncanny enough, so Disney created a free-roaming robot that moves “with creative intent.” Sounds an awful lot like “a mind of its own.” Disney Imagineering ...

Imagineering's entertainment robots get cuter and cuddlier as they become more advanced, so surely there's nothing to worry about. Reading time 2 minutes Disney Imagineering really asked themselves, ...

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