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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.