Real-life version of WALL-E, Disney demonstrates new bipedal robot: able to navigate complex terrain such as slopes/steps

This site reported on July 20 that the Disney research team designed and produced a new bipedal robot that can traverse unstructured terrain such as slopes and steps in the theme park.

Disney hopes that through this bipedal robot project, it combines procedural animation, modular hardware and reinforcement learning to design and program a robot that can do Create walking characters with these unique gaits and characteristics.

This bipedal robot is somewhat similar to WALL-E, the protagonist in the 2008 movie "Wall-E", except that it has a flat head and a boxy body.

Disney stated that the design focus of this project is the character-driven mechanical characteristics, proposing a control architecture based on reinforcement learning to robustly execute artistic actions conditioned on command signals.

When the bipedal robot moves, these command signals are generated by the animation engine, which synthesizes and mixes multiple animation sources to form an intuitive operator interface that enables real-time performance of the robot.

Disney said the robot system can create a believable robot character and paves the way for enhanced human-machine interaction in entertainment robots and other fields.

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