The New Stuntman at Disney is Not Human

Performing stunts has been a hazardous way to earn a living in the movies. You can never tell what stunt may go very wrong and end up hurting you badly, or even worse killing you. However, there have been enough athletic and money pressed individuals who have made it a vocation. It is thanks to these brave individuals that early movies had any sort of thrills and chills.

Today things are different. Potentially life threatening stunts can be duplicated in digital media without any true danger to the human beings modeling in the images. The trouble was human figures were still required to get into positions of potential danger. With their latest innovation, Disney Studio has come up with a stuntman, who is not a human being at all, but a robot.

The studio had initially introduced the Stickman robot which was quite rudimentary. Now it’s unveiled the Stuntronics robot which is able to perform a number of stunts that actual human beings could perform, such as back flips and more. Fitted out with a gyroscope, an accelerometer and a bunch of laser and sensors, the Stuntronics robot is a modern marvel to behold. This science project can even strike superhero styled poses in mid air!