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Movie Magic Makes Better Social Robots: The Overlap of Special Effects and Character Robot Engineering

Derek Carl Scherer

Year
2014
Citations
13
Access
Open access

Abstract

This essay provides a perspective on the ongoing convergence of social robots and special effects, animation, animatronics, puppetry techniques, and other entertainment technologies. In this paper, I will address the following design concepts:

Keywords

RobotMAGIC (telescope)EntertainmentCharacter (mathematics)PuppetryAnimationSpecial effectsPerspective (graphical)Computer scienceConvergence (economics)

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