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
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.
The Role of Closed-Loop Hand Control in Handshaking Interactions
On the Role of Stiffness and Synchronization in Human-Robot Handshaking
MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots
Deep Generative Video Compression
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.