Audio-Animatronics or just animatronics is a form of robotics created by Disney's Imagineers for several shows and attractions at Disneytheme parks, and subsequently expanded on and used by other companies. The robots move and make noise, generally speech or song. An animatronic robot is different from an android in that an animatronic works off prerecorded moves and sounds, rather than processing external stimuli and responding to them. Some early examples of Audio_Animatronics were animals at the Jungle Cruise and a talking version of Abraham Lincoln (both at Disneyland). Current examples include Rex (Star Tours, all Disney parks), Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones Adventure, Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea), and Tom Morrow (Innoventions, Disneyland).
Audio-animatronics were originally a creation of Lee Adams, who started his career with Disney as an electrician at the Burbank studio and was one of Disney's original Imagineers. The first Disney robot with this attribution was the Lincoln Exhibit presented at the 1963-64 New York Worlds Fair.
Perhaps the most impressive of the early audio-animatronics efforts was the Tiki Room (Disneyland Anaheim), where an room full of tropical creatures synchronise eye and facial action with a musical score entirely by electro-mechanical means. The first Disney audio-anamatronic feature in films was the giant squid in the movie 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, also by Lee Adams.
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Animatronics, as opposed to Robotics, only deals with creating (normally time-based) repetitive actions with no or little change in the routine upon external events.
The quickest way of achieving results is to use third party animatronics hardware and software that is readily available for use with low power servos.
A graphical user interface displays the audio track's waveform and let the user set the position each servo is to reach at any desired time, as well as the rate (how fast) the servo is to move to the new position.
Indeed, an Animatronics set has the ability to transport you to another mindset by immersing your eardrums in many rich textures of sound all at once.
Each of the members have spent years playing their respective instruments and have been a part of a couple previous projects, but it seems that they were all destined to form Animatronics one day.
Most of its songs stem from the improvised jam sessions that the band began with, but some of its newer tunes are coming from compositions that one member will bring to the table and the rest will add on to.
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