Disney Imagineers have designed a free-walking animatronic Baby Groot. And it's pretty amazing!
Disney demonstrated on YouTube how the process has come along since 2018. (Watch Baby Groot below)
On the YouTube video, Disney explained:
Its tightly integrated design provides over 50 degrees of freedom in a compact platform that can walk, gesture, and emote in style. Using custom authoring tools that combine whole-body motion planning and traditional character animation, artists can quickly bring robotic characters to life with expressive motions and interactive behaviors.
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