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The following are the sub goals that go into creating this experience:

  • Create an engaging (physically & emotionally), interactive, and fun experience
    • Pre-show
    • Show
  • Design and construct a new and improved animatronic Doc Beardsley
    • Animatronic Mechanics
    • Skin
    • Costume
  • Design and construct the “Doc Beardsley Presents…” Laboratory/Studio
    • Modular set design for transport
      • Façade
      • Show Set Interiors
    • Interactive Props
    • Lighting, Sound, Special Effects
  • Design a show puppeteering system (allows efficient show programming)
    • Custom Software
    • Joystick, MIDI, and Hand Puppet Control
  • Design and produce interactive experience show control tool
    • Custom Software
    • Allows authoring and automating the execution of an interactive experience


The Interactive Animatronics Initiative (IAI) is a joint initiative between the Field Robotics Center (FRC) and the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

Carnegie Mellon University, Entertainment Technology Center (c) 2001