The entertainment company said Monday that it is underwriting research and development labs at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
The R&D labs will conduct work in computer animation, computational cinematography, autonomous interactive characters, robotics and user interfaces that can then be used at Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney's Parks & Resorts division, Disney Media Networks, ESPN, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, and Disney Interactive Media Group.
But this is not new, is it? They already fund quite a bit into wildlife research, a few of which I've highlighted on here. Still, this is an interesting development. I know CMU is quite big in this area, but I did not realize that FIT Zurich is also in this area.
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