Search Disney patent PuppetCopter ETH Zurich

Disney has a research lab in Zurich, right next to the ETH Zurich. In the past, I've seen a lot of cooperation between Disney and ETH, often in the form of amusement Android concepts and models. Therefore, we were not at all surprised to learn that Disney made ​​a patent for "air supply system with puppets and support for mobile devices articulated," because we spotted the ETH Zurich the model last year, and his name Morris.



Maurice was the subject of PuppetCopter ETH Zurich project last year. Priority projects "allow engineering students at ETH Zurich to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice. During the two semesters they develop independently of the product. Based on the novel idea of the project, and teams go through this reality all processes of product development. "It seems that this project really cost Disney

Walt Disney is always looking to attract new parks. Task, they asked a team of engineers was in its infancy and industrial designers to create a doll that aviation attract viewers. Morris is a doll and perhaps imminent, hiking, fly fishing and light in different colors. This is made possible by Hexacopter balanced platform with arms working to control the doll. Doll is exactly the same in the process of rapid prototyping.



It videotape Morris at work on his Facebook page here.

Disney is not the patent for Morris specifically. It (l, a much larger and much) PuppetCopter system generally much that can be treated with dolls and brutal at all:



See all the channels? Imagine independent quadcopter attached to each, making Jack dance. Dance, Jack. DANCE!

And air supply systems described provides a number of useful features to display technical and earlier devices. For example, large characters can be safely transferred to the dramatic presentation. Characters or dolls can freely express much more effective and, for example, the airship. Can form a doll body of material is very light so far, and can be made ​​to seem relatively difficult or society (eg, edges and has hard-Thru) while remaining soft and flexible, which improves security to audiences aviation doll. The use of light doll allows the team or the number of unmanned aircraft to provide a relatively small relatively small suspension necessary to keep afloat the doll with or without expressiveness. He described the dolls are not attached to land or not serving, but, instead, are supported by vehicles that fly air show provides a unique and dynamic.
Disney put the other two patents related to unmanned aircraft, including unmanned aircraft and a display stand because mobile phones and other devices that make unmanned aerial demonstrations floating pixels. The latter is essentially a search Pixelbots Disney looks, but it should be noted that people have thought about this for a long time (Flyfire Massachusetts Institute of Technology is from 2010) and actually doing it for a little less than long time.

I think the idea of Disney smart to call them "flixels" is cool, though, and if they can muster enough flixels to form a real flight display, it would be fantastic seriously, because even display flight at the QQVGA decision base (160X120) 19 0200 will (!) individual aviation robots. That would be awesome. But fortunately.

SOURCE PuppetCopter Morris and patents and Manuel Ailinger

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