Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Shelley O Short

Kyle G Freeman

Michael Richard Honeck

Jeremy Andrew Mika

Cory J Rouse

Michael Fusco

Lanny Starkes Smoot

Jonathan Michael Ackley

Clifford W Wong

Jon Hayes Snoddy

Raymond J Scanlon

Jeremie A Papon

Daniel C Pike

Amy K Van Gilder

Amber Samdahl

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 for deployment within a social environment

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

This disclosure relates to systems and methods to provide physical items to users participating in a real-world interactive environment. The users may participate in the interactive environment by having experiences within the interactive environment. The systems and methods described herein include techniques in which the users may be provided with physical items through special purpose physical item dispensers. The physical items may be specifically selected and dispensed to the users based on the experiences that have occurred during their past participation.

Systems and methods to provide physical items to users participating in a real-world interactive environment

The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems for providing an interactive document reader.

Interactive document reader

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Altadena, CA, United States of America

Shelley O Short