In January 2025, my wife and I took my two-year-old daughter to Disney on Ice at Newark’s Prudential Center.

Disney’s robot of its character “Olaf” is incredibly impressive. It’s also kind of terrifying. This weekend, engineers at Disney Research Hub published a paper describing how they brought the beloved ...

Two decades after forming, Ariel Re writes $1.5 billion in premium annually, with the majority of business transacted in Bermuda. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Ariel Re has launched the 20 for 20 ...

♪ Ding dong merrily on high - [Announcer] Experience the magic of the season with the St. Olaf Christmas Festival. Since 1912, this cherished tradition has brought together renowned student choirs and ...

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is currently hosting “Freedom,” the largest-ever retrospective of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (1959-2023). Spanning four decades, the exhibition reveals an artist ...

The Imagineering team designed Olaf to move like his cinematic counterpart, and every motion referenced the animated original. According to Disney Parks Blog, “From the way he moves to the way he ...

Disney unveiled a next-generation, fully interactive robotic figure of Olaf from Frozen The robot uses AI (reinforcement learning) for graceful movement and is made of a soft “snow” material The ...

Disney has unveiled a new animatronic in the form of Olaf, the carrot-nosed snowman from the Frozen series of films. The robotic character will roam the streets of the upcoming World of Frozen (coming ...

The bolted-to-the-floor animatronics weren’t uncanny enough, so Disney created a free-roaming robot that moves “with creative intent.” Sounds an awful lot like “a mind of its own.” Disney Imagineering ...

Disney has revealed a next-generation robotic figure of Frozen's Olaf that will literally walk, talk, and interact with guests around the World of Frozen lands at Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong ...

Imagineering's entertainment robots get cuter and cuddlier as they become more advanced, so surely there's nothing to worry about. Reading time 2 minutes Disney Imagineering really asked themselves, ...

A self-walking Olaf, the beloved snowman from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen” movies, will make his debut at international Disney Parks. Bruce Vaughn, president and chief creative officer of ...