Posted on 10/31/2020 7:59:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Disney specializes in bringing imagination to life, but its latest innovation takes this idea one step further – a robot designed with a realistic and interactive stare.
The company’s imagineers unveiled a skinless humanoid animatronic bust, complete with movable eyes, eyelids and brows to create a human-like gaze.
The robot is fitted with a chest-mounted sensor that uses motion detection to determine when a guest is attempting to engage, which activates a series of motors that control interactions.
The engineers recently published a study titled ‘Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze,’ in which they write: ‘We present a general architecture that seeks not only to create gaze interactions from a technological standpoint, but also through the lens of character animation where the fidelity and believability of motion is paramount; that is, we seek to create an interaction which demonstrates the illusion of life.’
The robot has 19 degrees-of-freedom, but only makes use of its neck, eyes, eyelids and eyebrows -all of which are controlled by a proprietary software operating on a 100Hz real-time loop.
A chest-mounted sensor, combined with a camera, is used to identify people within the robot’s field-of-view and determines which stimuli is likely to engage based on a ‘curiosity score.’
‘The attention engine generates a ‘curiosity score’ assigned to that person indicating their salience/significance as well as how important it is for the robot character to respond to them,’ reads the study.
To do this, the team programmed the attention engine to gather 3D positions of people spotted in the camera.
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The English teeth are a nice touch.
Is it looking for Sarah Carter?
Voight Kampff test needed soon.
If I can block out the appearance of a nuts and bolts Train Wreck from nose to chin, the robot’s gaze is impressive. For most people, if something can follow you with it’s eyes like that, one assumes it is a sentient being, aware of you and of itself.
Yes, that is an illusion, but many aspects of perception are also illusions.
"Can I have sex with it?"
OK, laugh if you want but you know it's the first question everyone thinks of.
Cool, so now we don’t have to strangle the old wives for their eyes in Stepford, Connecticut.
The Walt Disney Co. owns ABC News. I think they found their next host for a town hall.
Designers did program it to pursue sex with children, so as to make it as life-like and indistinguishable as possible from a real Disney executive.
DNC is hoping for the fully-fleshed version for the 2024 primaries.
They would also like variable skin color, hair type and language/accent, to accommodate varied audiences.
In a popular movie, a teen has sex with a warm pie.
People conceivably could have sex with a manhole cover, though without conceiving, of course.
Under a Harris/Biden administration, perhaps CJ Roberts could allow the laws to be amended to make marriage legal with objects that were once—in racist fashion, of course—thought to be inanimate. Little did we know they were merely yet-unloved.
Boy! I was just thinking the same thing.
It avoids the uncanny valley by looking a bit like someone in a Hallowe’en mask...
this thing runs into one of the “Goombahs” it’s gonna get those teeth knocked down it throat’’ey...you lookin’ at ME?
I wouldn’t doubt for a hot second that the Democrat/Left/Communist Party is taking a serious look at this thing as a possible candidate for 2024.
Sarah Connor, I believe.
Uncanny Valley.
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