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If you thought Disneyland’s Hall of Presidents was awesome before, imagine how great it would be if you could play catch with Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? That’s seemingly the goal behind this latest engineering — err, imagineering — breakthrough that let will let the park’s non-human characters now interact with guests.
Using external cameras on a Kinect-like sensor, that track the motion of a toss, and algorithms that predict where it will land, the robot appears to track the ball with its eyes and is actually able to reach out and make a catch. Most of the time, at least. If it misses the animatronic looks down at where the ball eventually landed, and either shrugs or shakes its head in disappointment, knowing that somewhere the frozen corpse of Walt is secretly looking at it in shame. [YouTube via Popular Science]
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…catchy…
“The animations often solicited spontaneous reactions from the participants.”
That’s how we engineers describe laughter.
The real trick is getting it to catch a ball that isn’t within that 6 inch moving target of the cupped hand – the idea behind catch is 90% of the time it doesn’t fall into your hand.
The catch at the very end of the video is pretty impressive from that standpoint.
Cylons, or terminator; coming soon…
Is it supposed to look like jim carey?
But can it Play the Ukulele at the same time?????
NO!!
I don’t trust it’s face. Maybe it’s the Jimmy Hill look I don’t know but it’s probably planning to wipe out mankind when it’s not catching.