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Disney’s Living Characters: A Broken Promise

So you made a robot stand up and talk… now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney’s Living Character Initiative, a dedicated effort to populate Disney’s theme parks with free-roaming, interactive, mechanical beings. It was touted as the future of theme parks, so how’d it go?

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Disney’s Animatronics: A Living History

In the 1960s, Walt Disney carried the torch of one of humanity’s oldest pursuits, the search for mechanical life. The result was Audio-Animatronics, a new breed of robots designed to mimic life. In this first part of a two-part exploration into living machines in Disney Parks, Kevin explores the history of automatons and the initial development of Disney’s Animatronics.

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