Disney’s Olaf Self-Roaming Robot Comes to Life #Frozen

An AI powered robot roaming through crowds of tourists. What could go wrong?!

Ok so Olaf isn’t fully autonomous but it is waddling in that direction. A new roaming snowman animatronic is coming to Disney World of Frozen in Paris and Tokyo. The AI in this instance is primarily focused on walking movement and heat management.

Learn more from Fast Company:

But building a weird skeleton is useless if it can’t walk. To nail the specific, goofy gait of the character, human coding simply wasn’t enough. Disney turned to reinforcement learning, an artificial intelligence technique that works like an evolutionary sandbox. In a virtual simulation, the software was fed the exact animation files from Walt Disney Animation Studios and tasked with figuring out how to fire the motors to balance the heavy head and match those movements without real-world Olaf face-planting every few steps. Through relentless trial and error, the AI discovered the precise mathematical inputs needed.

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And more from Disney Parks Blog – Walt Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

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