Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Michael Fusco

Michael Richard Honeck

Jeremy Andrew Mika

Kyle G Freeman

Cory J Rouse

Shelley O Short

Clifford W Wong

Jon Hayes Snoddy

Raymond J Scanlon

Jeremie A Papon

Daniel C Pike

Jerry W Rees

Lance Duane Updyke

An interactive autonomous robot is configured for deployment within a social environment. The disclosed robot includes a show subsystem configured to select between different in-character behaviors depending on robot status, thereby allowing the robot to appear in-character despite technical failures. The disclosed robot further includes a safety subsystem configured to intervene with in-character behavior when necessary to enforce safety protocols. The disclosed robot is also configured with a social subsystem that interprets social behaviors of humans and then initiates specific behavior sequences in response.

Interactive autonomous robot configured with in-character safety response protocols

Interactive autonomous robot configured for deployment within a social environment

Interactive autonomous robot configured for programmatic interpretation of social cues

A self-guiding automaton includes sensors, a hardware processor, and a memory storing a self-guidance software code. The hardware processor executes the self-guidance software code to detect a location and/or travel path of one or more human being(s) in a pedestrian environment using the sensors, and identify a self-guided path forward in the pedestrian environment based on the location and/or travel path of each human being(s). The self-guidance software code also determines a social cue for communicating the self-guided path forward to the human being(s), detects any change in the location and/or travel path of each human being(s) using the sensors, determines a pedestrian safety score of the self-guided path forward based on the location and/or travel path and any change in the location and/or travel path of each human being(s), and moves the automaton along the self-guided path forward if the pedestrian safety score satisfies a safety threshold.

Communicative self-guiding automation

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Burbank, CA, United States of America

Michael Fusco