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Na'vi Shaman
Details
The Na'vi Shaman is a highly expressive humanoid/alien-like robot, with fluid movements and lifelike features. She welcomes guests at Na'vi River Journey found in Pandora – The World of Avatar at Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park in Florida.
- Creator
- Walt Disney Imagineering
- Country
- United States 🇺🇸
- Year
- 2017
- Type
- Entertainment, Humanoid
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Did You Know?
The Na'vi Shaman sings and performs for about 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, with very limited breaks. |
The system was custom designed and tested over several years to ensure consistent performance with strong reliability and longevity. |
The Shaman is designed with swappable head, arms, and hands for ease of maintenance. |
The full figure has 9000 parts and 3500 screws. She weighs 170 kg from the waist up, reaches a wingspan of over 3 meters, and if she were to stand, she would be nearly 3 meters tall. |
Motion-capture actors from the original Avatar film provided the performances on which her movements are based. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- With 42 degrees of freedom in the head, the Na'vi figure is able to perform a wide range of facial expressions that emulate emotion and convey feeling. The robot features independent shoulder movements in 9-DoF arms, allowing the figure to animate her shoulders and scapula to create a much richer and realistic body language. The control software uses real-time, model-based collision detection to prevent commanded motions from causing any damage.
- HEIGHT
- 300 cm | 118 in
- LENGTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WIDTH
- 305 cm | 120 in
- WEIGHT
- 170 kg | 375 lb
- SPEED
- N/A km/h | N/A mph
- SENSORS
- Rotary encoders for absolute positioning
- ACTUATORS
- DC motors, many of which are frameless and custom built
- POWER
- N/A
- COMPUTING
- N/A
- SOFTWARE
- Custom control software
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 81 (Head 42 DoF; Arms: 9 DoF x 2; Body: 21 DoF)
- MATERIALS
- The skeletal body consists mostly of aluminum parts. Custom silicone skin materials.
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- http://waltdisneyimagineering.com/