Insights Into Disney’s Robotic Character Platform

At Disney, we're redefining entertainment robotics from the ground up and are building artist-centric tools that provide creative control of dynamic character motion. Gain insight into our robotic character platform that enables the rapid design of freely roaming robotic characters like our BDX Droids. See how our characters learn to imitate artist-specified animations with a combination of deep reinforcement learning and GPU-accelerated simulation. Learn how we get our characters to perform highly challenging motions at the limit of hardware, and see the first results of bringing engaging autonomous interactions to our characters.