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# Disney can now clone your face, put it on a robot.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/disney-can-now-clone-your-face-put-robot/
- Published: 2012-08-17T20:30:11.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:57:47.000Z
- Description: In the noble pursuit to inject verisimilitude into the virtual, photorealistic videogames have gone at length to perfect face-capturing technology. Now, Disney researches have taken the captured data out of the database and onto silicon, around a head, then onto a robotic body. Science, Space & Robo
- Author: Kent Szlauderbach
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

In the noble pursuit to inject verisimilitude into the virtual, photorealistic videogames have gone [at length](http://kotaku.com/5803111/think-la-noire-has-impressive-facial-animations-check-this-out?ref=killscreen.com) to perfect face-capturing technology. Now, Disney researches have taken the captured data out of the database and onto silicon, around a head, then onto a robotic body. [Science, Space & Robots](http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/blog/81320124?ref=killscreen.com) has more.

> The Zürich researchers have invented a computational method for automatically designing synthetic skin to match real individuals. The process starts by scanning 3D facial expressions from a human subject. Then, a novel optimization scheme determines the shape of the synthetic skin as well as control parameters for the robotic head that provide the best match to the human subject.  
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> Dr. Bernd Bickel, researcher at Disney Research, Zurich, says, “With our method, we can simply create a robotic clone of a real person. The custom digitally designed skin can be fabricated using injection molding and modern rapid prototyping technology. We 3D print a mold and use elastic silicon with properties similar to human skin as base material.”

Read the research paper [here](http://www.disneyresearch.com/research/projects/physicalfacecloning%5Fpaper1.pdf?ref=killscreen.com). Also, terrifying.