Disney Imagineering Olaf

Snow-like shimmer

Snow-like shimmer enhanced by iridescent fibers

Iridescent fibers

Soft snow costume

Snow costume deforms and moves differently from the BDX Droids hard shells

Fully articulate mouth, eyes, and removable carrot nose

Articulated mouth and eyes

Olaf’s snowball feet move along his body

Snowball feet movement

Removable carrot nose and arms

Removable carrot nose

Mechanical design

Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development

Deep reinforcement learning enables robotic characters to learn to imitate artist-provided motion in simulation

Reinforcement learning pushing hardware limits to achieve creative intent of artists

Deep reinforcement learning

Newton open-source simulation framework with Kamino simulator for reinforcement learning

Kamino simulator unlocks reinforcement learning for robotic systems of unmatched complexity

Artist-provided motion imitation in simulation

Newton/Kamino simulation work with NVIDIA and Google DeepMind

Artistic interface