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Monday, April 26, 2021
Walt Disney Imagineering reveals walking Baby Groot animatronic as part of 'Project Kiwi'
attractionsmagazine.com: Earlier this month, members of the media were shown two things that were once deemed impossible during a virtual Disney press event: a “real” working lightsaber, and an autonomous walking animatronic Baby Groot. Now, the latter has been revealed to the public.
1 comment:
Katie Pyzowski
said...
While I have had my beef with robots and AI type technology in the comment section of this blog before, I have to admit that I have a wild fascination and love for animatronics. I think that this fascination came from my love of Star Wars droids when I was a kid – I just think that having a little technological companion would be so neat! I remember fiddling with basic electronics and mindstorms Lego kits to try and make my own R2 inspired robot when I was in middle school. Honestly, looking back, that is probably one of the first props sort of things I got excited about. This animatronic Groot is absolutely adorable and moves so scarily organically. I do share some of the same concerns that this article mentions about having a robot like this walking freely amongst park patrons. I think that perhaps if the animatronic had a human companion and babysitter or sort - like it Starlord walked around with Groot - that could work as a safeguard from patrons kicking over sweet little Groot. I wonder what the outer skin of Groot is made of, and how that skin is attached to the mechanism beneath it?
1 comment:
While I have had my beef with robots and AI type technology in the comment section of this blog before, I have to admit that I have a wild fascination and love for animatronics. I think that this fascination came from my love of Star Wars droids when I was a kid – I just think that having a little technological companion would be so neat! I remember fiddling with basic electronics and mindstorms Lego kits to try and make my own R2 inspired robot when I was in middle school. Honestly, looking back, that is probably one of the first props sort of things I got excited about. This animatronic Groot is absolutely adorable and moves so scarily organically. I do share some of the same concerns that this article mentions about having a robot like this walking freely amongst park patrons. I think that perhaps if the animatronic had a human companion and babysitter or sort - like it Starlord walked around with Groot - that could work as a safeguard from patrons kicking over sweet little Groot. I wonder what the outer skin of Groot is made of, and how that skin is attached to the mechanism beneath it?
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