"This absolutely is the future of how we're building robot characters. Reinforcement learning is the true unlock that could let Disney populate entire lands full of interactive characters, now that entire robots can be built in months instead of years. And while Disney Imagineering has done some of this with its Star Wars droids before, those were robots being robots. This is our first animated character that we brought to life."
"Olaf - coming to Disneyland Paris on March 26th and Hong Kong Disneyland this summer - is the rare robot that crosses the uncanny valley as long as he keeps moving. And that's because Disney animators helped him train himself, sticking 100,000 virtual copies of the physical Olaf robot into a Nvidia-powered simulation and rewarding him for screen-accurate moves. It took just two days to train Olaf with an Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU."
Disney Imagineering has created Olaf, a 35-inch tall robot character from Frozen that will debut at Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland. The robot successfully crosses the uncanny valley through continuous movement, achieved by training with 100,000 virtual simulations using Nvidia GPU technology in just two days. Olaf operates via teleoperation with pre-recorded voice lines and performs screen-accurate animated movements. Unlike previous Star Wars droids that were simply robots, Olaf represents Disney's first animated character brought to life as a robot. This reinforcement learning approach marks a significant advancement, potentially enabling Disney to populate entire lands with interactive characters built in months rather than years.
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