Walt Disney Imagineering has placed a new audio animatronic figure of Scooter the Muppet inside Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The figure marks the first time the team has applied motion capture to any Muppet character when building an audio animatronic.
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iFixit engineers tore down the Trump Mobile T1 this week and put every layer to the test. The gold-finished handset drew plenty of early attention for its bold look and branding. What came out during the full examination showed a device that borrows almost everything from an existing model with only light cosmetic updates on top.
Lincoln has placed a compact portable structure on Manhattan’s High Line at the 14th Street section. Anyone walking the elevated park between June 12 and 14 can step inside for a five or ten minute session built around coordinated sound, scent, lighting, and touch.
Late one night the machine made a sound. Its builder checked the logs and found a trace of its inner state. The robot had been wondering when its person would return. It did not want to be alone. That moment sits at the center of a project called GrowBot. The creator, who runs the YouTube channel Art of the Problem, set out to build the simplest possible robot that could learn movement, perception, and even a kind of personality from the ground up. The result cost roughly $80 in parts, ran on a single Raspberry Pi Zero 2, and ended up revealing something unexpected about how fast physical action and slower thought can work together.
Microsoft shared a 30-minute gameplay video for Fable right after the latest Xbox showcase. The footage offers the most detailed look yet at how Playground Games plans to handle the return to Albion. Players step into the role of a hero who begins as a child discovering unusual powers in the village of Briar Hill. A time jump then moves the story forward to adult life, where decisions start to shape both the character and the surrounding world.