Brock Klamfoth, a senior studying computer science, co-founded the Animatronic Digital Engineering Initiative, which gives students the opportunity to build physical and digital animatronics, bringing ...

If you’ve been scrolling TikTok or X / Twitter lately, chances are you’ve stumbled across various clips, memes and reactions of a massive, rabbit-like robot taking shape in someone’s dimly lit ...

Ever since Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room opened in 1963, animatronics (automated puppetry that uses prerecorded sounds and movements) has been entertaining people at amusement parks and in film.

In a basement in Bear, Delaware, something extraordinary has taken shape over the past seven months. Not a game room. Not a ...

Two years ago, at Jason Woliner’s birthday party, there was a strange guest in attendance. Mysterious, wise, uncanny — it was an animatronic robot cowboy named Dale. In the years prior, Woliner had ...

Robots, equipped with cameras and disguised as animals, were deployed in the BBC TV series Spies in the Ocean to capture surprising behaviour ...