Disney’s robot of its character “Olaf” is incredibly impressive. It’s also kind of terrifying. This weekend, engineers at Disney Research Hub published a paper describing how they brought the beloved ...

The musical Frozen, a story that began with 2013 film from Walt Disney Animation Studios (based loosely on Hans Christian Anderson’s 1844 fairy tale, The Snow Queen) and then adapted to the stage with ...

Elinor Harrison received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Grammy Museum Foundation. She is affiliated with the International Association of ...

Disney has revealed a next-generation robotic figure of Frozen's Olaf that will literally walk, talk, and interact with guests around the World of Frozen lands at Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong ...

Disney unveiled a next-generation, fully interactive robotic figure of Olaf from Frozen The robot uses AI (reinforcement learning) for graceful movement and is made of a soft “snow” material The ...

That immediately led me to think back at the other times that Olaf has appeared in the theme parks as a character. I had to showcase the current walk-around meet and greet / show character look with ...

Disney has unveiled a new animatronic in the form of Olaf, the carrot-nosed snowman from the Frozen series of films. The robotic character will roam the streets of the upcoming World of Frozen (coming ...

Disney has brought one of its most legendary characters to life – and he's seriously worth melting for. Measuring just three feet (one metre) tall, Olaf the robot can walk and talk just like the ...

The bolted-to-the-floor animatronics weren’t uncanny enough, so Disney created a free-roaming robot that moves “with creative intent.” Sounds an awful lot like “a mind of its own.” Disney Imagineering ...

Imagineering's entertainment robots get cuter and cuddlier as they become more advanced, so surely there's nothing to worry about. Reading time 2 minutes Disney Imagineering really asked themselves, ...

Walt Disney Imagineering—the research and development arm of the Disney parks—will debut a new robot in its Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong parks. Frozen fans will certainly be excited to see Olaf the ...

Disney Parks are amazing places where guests can experience their favorite stories in ways that simply watching movies can’t provide. Theme park attractions make you part of the story, and the chance ...