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Disney’s Imagineering, using NVIDIA’s Kamino simulator and deep reinforcement learning, trained a self-walking Olaf animatronic to balance and move on a moving boat for the World of Frozen at Disneyland Paris. Olaf demonstrated onstage at NVIDIA’s GTC keynote, illustrating how GPU-based simulation speeds character development and real-world navigation for park experiences.
Disney’s Olaf animatronic is being developed as a next‑gen park character: teleoperated for now, it’s trained in a Nvidia‑powered Kamino simulation using reinforcement learning and 100,000 virtual copies to achieve lifelike movement. It will debut at Disneyland Paris in March and Hong Kong Disneyland later this year, with plans to enable broader robotic character interactions across lands, while true autonomy remains in development and open‑source tools like Kamino and the Newton Physics Engine are part of the workflow.
Crews are working on transforming Splash Mountain into Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom. The attraction's rockwork is being patched up, and the track has been repainted. Landscaping will make the area look more like a Louisiana bayou, and the thorns of Splash Mountain will be removed. Crews have been seen cutting into the mountain and moving scaffolding around the area. Tiana's Bayou Adventure is set to replace both versions of Splash Mountain in 2024.