animatronic

The constant flash and glowing screens from people posting pictures of the Jack Sparrow animatronic on Facebook completely ruin it.

In fact, the animatronic 1964 GE pavillion show that Asimov is talking about can still be seen today at Disney World.

You cannot possibly believe that the animatronic contribution here is 100% contingent on a carrot?

Especially when every high-end animatronic needs to always be accompanied by several human minders anyway.

This bot is likely just regurgitating bits from the non-fiction writing of authors like an animatronic robot in the Hall of Presidents.

It is also impressive in its technical scope employing physicists, pyrotechnic folks, and a bunch of roboticists who work on the audio-animatronic robots.

Imagine if HN had an army of animatronic robots run an arm-wrestling tournament every hour to determine which stories reach the front page.

That's like saying car drivers prefer real horses to mechanized steel animatronic ones.

It wouldn't be very interesting to say that you're going to make an animatronic teddy bear or a robot DJ and then not make it.

I've been working on a DIY animatronic project that is mostly vibe-coded using Sonnet 4.5.

What has worked for me has been using the Arduino platform to build animatronic projects for Halloween (a pumpkin that yelled and flash LEDs), and Minecraft.

We already live in the world where hackers are pwning refrigerators, I can't wait for prompt injection attacks on animatronic cartoon characters.

I imagine it like a casino acquiring a former-joke product, which made hologram/animatronic illusions of people "winning big" at a table or slot-machine.