wooe Disney Builds An Adorable Robot
We’ve seen them build systems that let them 3D print
impossible spinning tops, software to turn 3D models into massive parade
balloons, and solutions for doing motion capture outdoors with nothing but a
few Go Pros.
Now they’re building robots that can draw sprawling pictures
across the beach.
The robot aptly called “Beachbot” works by dragging a
set of pins through the sand, sort of like a rake. Each pin is individually
raisable, allowing the bot to draw lines of varying thicknesses. More pins down thicker lines drawn.
The artist behind the robot starts a canvas by setting down
poles, which the robot uses as markers to finely calculate its position. At
that point, the robot can be passed an image file to draw automatically, or the
artists can steer it manually.
The Beachbot moves on a set of large, soft wheels that
Disney has dubbed “balloon wheels”, allowing it to move across the sand without
leaving tracks or screwing up whatever it’s drawn previously.
Why? A) Because why not. and B) It doesn’t require much
thinking to come up with practical uses for this, even just within the realm of
Disney. Disney has beach resorts. People would flip out to wake up in the
morning and see their favorite characters drawn in the sand outside of their
room — and by lunch, high tide would come in and wash it away, prepping the
canvas for a new drawing the next day.
This project, like a good number of Disney Research’s
projects, was built in collaboration with Swiss engineering school
Glen Johnson
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