Disney has created a robot that mimics human facial expressions

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The American company, The Walt Disney, has developed a robot that mimics a person’s face’s movements, including blinking and involuntarily moving his head. The sensor in the chest area warns you when you need to return to the person standing next to you. His gaze shifts from direct eye contact to rapid eye movement, known as saccades. Also, the robot moves slightly up and down, simulating breathing. The publication notes that most humanoid robots focus their gaze on the human face, but this is not how humans communicate. The Disney team of researchers explained in their paper “Realistic and interactive view of the robot”: “The view is a key social signal that shapes people’s perceptions of each other when interacting. For example, people with whom we have more eye contact are perceived by us as more intelligent, honest, sincere, and reliable. The developers added that a view is an important tool for the interactive nature of the robot. The study aims to develop a system that mimics the mutual human gaze. Disney will be able to use this technology for animatronic characters in its theme parks. The company’s research division has been working for some time to make more realistic robots; in 2018, he introduced his robot Stickman, which could do a backflip in the air, “to mimic the height of a man performing a trick with his hands raised above his head.”

Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze

6 thoughts on “Disney has created a robot that mimics human facial expressions

  1. Okruch Szymon says:

    That looks fascinating :0 Did you know, that several years ago “robot” was implementing machine looking human alike and “automaton” was the machine acting independently? Now the definition is changed due to the progress.

  2. Myśliwiec Jakub says:

    This robot is fascinating and scary in the same time

  3. Brygida Voicu says:

    Although it looks very scary, at the same time its super human-lookalike! Its very interesting that copying this basic functions of blinking and breathing already gives the robot the ability to look so “human-real”. It is also very interesting in terms of implementation. Using it as different disney-characters can make a lot of change for this company.

  4. 50062 says:

    This robot looks terrifying so far. The question is whether it’s because we still know it’s a robot or because even though it’s still a robot, it has something human about it. However, it cannot be denied that somewhere subconsciously I thought that it would be a really long time in the future before it would become true, but here it is.

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