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| Apr 17, 2025 | NVIDIA announcements, news and more, from GTC 2025 | Presented by NVIDIA
The AI revolution is accelerating driven by billion-parameter reasoning models needed to develop agentic and physical AI. As NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared in his GTC keynote, the move from training to full-p... |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Nvidia’s GTC 2025 keynote: 40x AI performance leap, open-source ‘Dynamo’, and a walking Star Wars-inspired ‘Blue’ robot | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at the SAP Center on Tuesday morning, leather jacket... |
| Aug 5, 2024 | China's Newest Robot Has Human-Life Facial Expressions | By Aldohn Domingo
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China has reportedly created a new robot that supports a new algorithm that gives the... |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Exploring the Advancements in AI Image Generation Technology | Share
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable strides across various fields, transforming the way we live, work, and create. Among its most fascinating applications is AI image generation, where... |
| Mar 30, 2024 | This Week in AI: Let us not forget the humble data annotator | Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on th... |
| Jul 22, 2023 | This week in AI: Companies voluntarily submit to AI guidelines — for now | Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on th... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | The hype, haplessness and hope of haptics in the COVID-19 era | Devon Powers Contributor
Devon Powers is an associate professor of advertising at Temple University and the author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future."
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David Parisi is an associate profes... |
| Nov 7, 2019 | This robotic arm slows down to avoid the uncanny valley | Robotic arms can move fast enough to snatch thrown objects right out of the air… but should they? Not unless you want them to unnerve the humans they’re interacting with, according to work out of Disney Research. Roboticists there found tha... |
| Oct 4, 2018 | This autonomous spray-painting drone is a 21st-century tagger’s dream | Whenever I see an overpass or billboard that’s been tagged, I worry about the tagger and the danger they exposed themselves to in order to get that cherry spot. Perhaps this spray paint-toting drone developed by ETH Zurich and Disney Resear... |
| Jul 17, 2018 | Why Facebook is expanding its robotics research efforts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook AI Research is making series of major ne... |
| Jul 17, 2018 | Why Facebook is expanding its robotics research efforts | Facebook AI Research is making series of major new additions to its AI research efforts taking place at offices and AI labs around the world, many of which will support efforts to support research into robotics first started in recent month... |
| Jul 13, 2018 | Disney tech smooths out bad CG hair days | Disney is unequivocally the world’s leader in 3D simulations of hair — something of a niche talent in a way, but useful if you make movies like Tangled, where hair is basically the main character. A new bit of research from the company make... |
| May 22, 2018 | Stickman is Disney’s new headless acrobatic robot | The team at Disney Research never fails to deliver fascinating (if not always particularly useful) experiments. Take Stickman. The robot is essentially one long limb, capable of some cool acrobatic maneuvers.
The system, detailed in a new p... |
| Apr 27, 2018 | This soft robotic arm is straight out of Big Hero 6 (it’s even from Disney) | The charming robot at the heart of Disney’s Big Hero 6, Baymax, isn’t exactly realistic, but its puffy bod is an (admittedly aspirational) example of the growing field of soft robotics. And now Disney itself has produced a soft robot arm th... |
| Apr 26, 2018 | Disney’s pneumatic ‘Force Jacket’ could be the key to awesome VR theme parks | As we navigate further and further into this strange Ready Player One-like future that plenty of tech companies are investing heavily, Disney wants to ensure that people can feel content in the most life-like way possible.
Disney Research h... |
| Mar 26, 2018 | Robot posture and movement style affects how humans interact with them | It seems obvious that the way a robot moves would affect how people interact with it, and whether they consider it easy or safe to be near. But what poses and movement types specifically are reassuring or alarming? Disney Research looked in... |
| Jan 15, 2018 | It’s time to get ready for augmented reality | WayRay’s holographic AR device displays information tailored to drivers and passengers. Wayray
By Matt Adcock, Data61
The world’s largest annual consumer technology show — CES 2018 in Las Vegas — ended last week and some of the most excitin... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | This Disney AR app could be a stealth play for smart coloring books | In our many perambulations through the halls of museums, who hasn’t wanted to give paintings we pass by a little touch-up in a spontaneous act of yellowism? Disney has created an augmented reality app to allow just this, but given the compa... |
| Jul 25, 2017 | This facial recognition system tracks how you’re enjoying a movie | As moviemaking becomes as much a science as an art, the moviemakers need ever-better ways to gauge audience reactions. Did they enjoy it? How much… exactly? At minute 42? A system from Caltech and Disney Research uses a facial expression tr... |
| Jun 26, 2017 | Disney experiments look to make kid-robot interactions more natural | Sooner or later, our children will be raised by robots, so it’s natural that Disney, purveyor of both robots and child-related goods, would want to get ahead of that trend. A trio of studies from its Research division aim at understanding a... |
| Apr 24, 2017 | Creepy facial projections, 3D hair capture, digital creepers and more from Eurographics 2017 | The Eurographics conference is underway in Lyon and among the more technical offerings from computer graphics specialists are a few cool enough for just about anyone to appreciate. Unless you’re afraid of clowns. In that case, you probably ... |
| Mar 6, 2017 | Disney Research has robots matching verbal styles with kids | Roboticists at Disney Research are investigating how to improve the quality of human-robot interactions by studying how speech patterns affect engagement with a creepy anthropomorphic bot that imitates its playmates’ speech.
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| Jan 31, 2017 | Ocado is developing robot hands that won’t bruise bananas | The UK’s online supermarket, Ocado Ltd, has plans to test a new robotic arm for picking and packing groceries in some of its warehouses the company announced today. A grasping robot arm dexterous enough not to bruise bananas, crack eggs or ... |
| Dec 12, 2016 | Real-time motion capture system from Disney Research uses as few sensors as possible | Serious motion capture setups often involve dozens of optical markers, inertial sensors or both, making them a pain to set up and tear down, and producing a ton of data. This Disney Research project produces high-quality results from just a... |
| Nov 16, 2016 | An AI project can tell you when the cow goes “Moo” | A new project from Disney Research can recognize various objects in videos — cows, cars, very small rocks — and add appropriate sounds — “Mooo!”, “Vroom!”, a witch’s cackle — automatically. The system ignores the surroundings and other audi... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: Disney, DraftKings, Carbon Black, MassChallenge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 2/11/16, 10:52 a.m., to include the DataCamp announcement.] This week, we’re tracking the latest news about DraftKings, Disney’s local research lab, startup funding a... |
| Feb 1, 2016 | 3D Touch Opens A New Dimension Of User Interaction | Craig Tashman Contributor
Craig Tashman is the founder and CEO of LiquidText.
We spend so much time touching our devices — but what if they could touch us back? Apple’s recent leaps with 3D Touch technology show that this could soon be a re... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | Disney Research Creates A Robot That Can Fly Up Walls | Disney Research and the research group at ETH Zurich have created a car that can drive, fly, jump, and ride up walls. By using propellers and wheels, the robot can fly over obstacles and then smack against walls for a little vertical action... |
| Dec 29, 2015 | Disney’s gravity-defying rolling robot can drive vertically up walls | Most four-wheeled robots would probably be stopped in their tracks by a high vertical obstacle like a wall, but that’s not the case for a recent Disney creation that can drive vertically up a wall. Called VertiGo and developed by Disney and... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | 8 bits, 8 players, 8 projectors, and one Nintendo Entertainment System | reader comments 33 with 28 posters participating, including story author
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| Nov 18, 2015 | Hacker News Highlights | Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite recent moments on Hacker News.
Tom Poindexter, the author of popular 1985 learn-to-programming game CROBOTS, open sources his work and posts it to Hacker News.
Commenters discuss being the second- ... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Hacker News Highlights | Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite recent moments on Hacker News. Tom Poindexter, the author of popular 1985 learn-to-programming game
CROBOTS, open sources his work and posts it to Hacker News. Commenters discuss being the second- o... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Disney’s smartwatch prototype can identify and track everything you touch | reader comments 57 with 41 posters participating
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Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have hacked together a proof-of-concept smartwatch that us... |
| Oct 5, 2015 | Disney's Augmented Reality Coloring Book App Creates Animated 3D Characters From Drawings | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 05 October 2015, 02:10 pm
Disney is bringing its magic to a brand new augmented reality app that will awaken the imagination of kids and adults of all ages. With just a sprinkle of pixie dust — better yet, the use... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | Linux Light Bulbs Allow Devices To Talk To Each Other With Flashes Of Brilliance | Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? M-I-C- See? See the visible light carrying data quickly and easily from light bulbs to gadgets! -K-E-Y Why? Because light is ubiquitous! M-O-U-S-E!
Disney researchers are working on a... |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Electrovibration: Bringing Tactile Back | Nic Denholm Contributor
Nic Denholm regularly exceeds the 160-character limit for SMS marketing outfit EZ Texting.
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| May 29, 2015 | Disney robots built for physics-defying cartoon walks | Some animated characters, it turns out, walk so goofily they defy the laws of physics.
That poses a big challenge for Disney (DIS) researchers who are building character robots that could mimic the physics-defying walks and interact with th... |
| May 19, 2015 | Games by numbers: machine learning is changing sport | The drive to improve performance means elite sport is inundated with data from wearable technologies such as GPS, computer vision and match statistics.
So professional clubs are constantly on the lookout for tools that can help turn these d... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Disney Conquers Physics, Uses 3D Printing To Create Impossible Spinning Tops | Have you ever been sitting around bored and found yourself trying to get some random household object — a battery, a pen, whatever — to spin around like a top?
Disney has taken that idea to a pretty grand extreme. Combining the power of 3D ... |
| Apr 28, 2014 | This Printer Can Make A Real Teddy Bear In A Few Hours | Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Disney Research have created a 3D printer that can output a real, cuddly teddy bear in a few hours, thereby putting Santa’s elves out of business. The machine uses soft yarn and a needle to “felt” the obje... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Motorola hires scientist who made everything touch-sensitive | Having organized most of the world’s information, Google is now looking to push the boundaries in as many industries as possible. Which may explain why Google-owned Motorola has hired Dr. Ivan Poupyrev, who’s best known as the research scie... |
| Oct 8, 2013 | UltraHaptics uses the magic of sound waves to create touch feedback in mid-air | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
UltraHaptics is creating a new way to touch and f... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | Disney Researchers Create A Way To Make Geared Figures That Look Amazingly Life-Like | For centuries the creation of geared automata has been sort of a dark art. To design a mechanical device to move like a human or animal was a trick in itself and to build the gears and rods necessary to propel the thing was even trickier. A... |
| Sep 15, 2013 | Transfer a secret audio message by poking someone with your finger | Disney Research reader comments 36 with 31 posters participating
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| Jan 17, 2013 | Let the NeuroGames Begin | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Neurogaming is set to disrupt the gaming industry and transform the gaming experience over the next five years. It will ride a wave of ... |
| Aug 15, 2012 | Disney добавит виртуальные ощущения в реальный мир | Anonymous 15 августа 2012, 09:30 Disney добавит виртуальные ощущения в реальный мир
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| May 7, 2012 | Disney Touché turns everyday objects into multi-touch, gesture-recognizing interfaces | Disney Research, the bleeding edge guerilla technology arm of The Walt Disney Company, has created Touché, a system that can turn almost any object or substance into a multi-touch, gesture-recognizing interface. At its most basic, Touché co... |
| May 4, 2012 | Amazing new touch technology could revolutionize smartphones, doorknobs, your sofa | What if any object in the world, not just smartphones and tablets, could know when and how you were touching them? If a team working at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University continues to make progress, soon we may have smarter chai... |
| May 4, 2012 | Amazing new touch technology could revolutionize smartphones, doorknobs, your sofa | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What if any object in the world, not just smartph... |
| May 3, 2012 | Touché Teaches Objects To Sense Your Touch | Researchers at Disney and Carnegie Mellon University have created an interesting new technology using Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing that allows nearly any object to sense multiple points of contact on its complex service. This would al... |
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Disney’s Research Studios, headquartered locally in Glendale, California, houses the team... |
| Disney’s gravity-defying rolling robot can drive vertically up walls | Most four-wheeled robots would probably be stopped in their tracks by a high vertical obstacle like a wall, but that’s not the case for a recent Disney creation that can drive vertically up a wall. Called VertiGo and developed by Disney and... |
| Дополненная реальность: как современные технологии придают миру еще одно измерение | Дополненная реальность: как современные технологии придают миру еще одно измерение
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