{"id":153562,"date":"2025-11-25T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153562\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:36:07","slug":"disney-unveils-new-ai-powered-robot-bringing-beloved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153562\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney unveils new AI-powered robot bringing beloved\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/disney-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Disney<\/a> has brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/&lt;a%20href=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/frozen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Frozen<\/a>&#8216;s Olaf to life with an AI-powered animatronic robot, <\/p>\n<p>The three-foot-tall lifelike device is destined to roam around Hong Kong Disneyland and Disneyland Paris from early 2026, an announcement on Monday (24 November) revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Olaf&#8217;s prototype was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/disney-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Disney<\/a> Research in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The robot has been made using a type of artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning, meaning Olaf can &#8220;learn&#8221; to walk.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors will be able to remove Olaf&#8217;s nose and arms, just like he does in the beloved movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney has brought Frozen&#8216;s Olaf to life with an AI-powered animatronic robot, The three-foot-tall lifelike device is destined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,409,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,255],"class_list":["post-153562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}