SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL AN ENTERTAINMENT FIGURE

Abstract: an animated figure system includes an animated figure comprising a flexible skin layer, an actuating system coupled to a connection location of the flexible skin layer, and an automation controller. the automation controller is configured to access a digital model of the animated figure, in which the digital model comprises a vertex associated with the connection location, determine a first positioning of the vertex within the digital model, and control the actuating system to set a second positioning of the connection location based on the first positioning of the vertex.

Inventor(s): Akiva Meir Krauthamer, Aaron Chandler Jeromin, Elam Kevin Hertzler

CPC Classification: B25J11/0015 (Manipulators not otherwise provided for)

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