Disney Research combines the best of academia and industry, by doing fundamental and application-driven research. We publish our work and actively engage with the global research community. Our research applications and technology are experienced by millions of people. We honor Walt Disney’s legacy by deploying our innovations on a global scale.
Our Research Areas
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Immersive Technologies
Recent Publications
Our research leads to publications in peer-reviewed journals and gets presented at conferences like Robotics: Science and Systems and SIGGRAPH. Here are some of the latest.
VMP: Versatile Motion Priors for Robustly Tracking Motion on Physical Characters
Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character
Soft Pneumatic Actuator Design using Differentiable Simulation
Interactive Design of Stylized Walking Gaits for Robotic Characters
California Institute for Technology
Pasedena, CA
Internship Program
We attract talent from nearby universities as well as from all over the world.
Academic Consultants
We cannot hire all the great minds of our generation, but through out academic consulting program we can try to work with as many of them possible.