Brock Klamfoth, a senior studying computer science, co-founded the Animatronic Digital Engineering Initiative, which gives ...

Every tech category has its moment, and for robots, that moment was CES 2026. There were dozens of humanoid robots (and a ...

Ecovacs has branched out from robovacs with an AI-powered, animatronic dog 'LilMilo' is designed to be an emotional companion ...

You know what would definitely make weddings more fun? Animatronic robots of the bride and groom. These "look-alike welcome robots" take the place of boring welcome boards and greet guests with ...

Ever since Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room opened in 1963, animatronics (automated puppetry that uses prerecorded sounds and movements) has been entertaining people at amusement parks and in film.

To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...

Two years ago, at Jason Woliner’s birthday party, there was a strange guest in attendance. Mysterious, wise, uncanny — it was an animatronic robot cowboy named Dale. In the years prior, Woliner had ...