Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Most robots walk like they've soiled themselves; this one walks with a crazy amount of personality. Disney is getting very good at combining the art of character animation with the science of bipedal ...

AI could help robots learn new skills and adapt to the real world quickly. The robot dog is waving its legs in the air like an exasperated beetle. After 10 minutes of struggling, it manages to roll ...

Audiences will get the opportunity to preview footage from DreamWorks Animation‘s upcoming animated feature “The Wild Robot” at the Annecy International Film Festival. The studio, which is celebrating ...

We’ve recently seen humanoid robots that can cartwheel, kung-fu kick, and front flip, but such attention-grabbing stunts aren’t the goal of California-based Figure AI. Instead, its team of roboticists ...

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Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

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