尼加州冒險樂園（California Adven-ture）遊玩的遊客，得到一個意外「驚喜」:布偶（Muppet）劇人物「香瓜博士」（Dr. Bunsen Honeydew）突然現身和大家「打招呼」。卡通造型人物在迪士尼樂園走來走去並不稀奇，但他們都是真人套在道具裡面，一看就很「假」。但週日出現的香瓜博士卻是如假包換的布偶本尊，騎著一輛類似風火輪（Segway）的「布偶活動實驗室」（Muppet Mobile Lab），後座載著小跟班Breaker踩著單車。

說他是布偶，香瓜博士並未被固定在舞台上，也看不出有人在幕後操縱，但他仍能和現場遊客有說有笑，難道他是「機器人」嗎？

透過電腦和無線通訊 迪士尼布偶騎segway 又能和人有說有笑 遊客大驚奇

香瓜博士的幕後「秘密」，是他身上裝有攝影機、麥克風、擴音機等，樂園控制中心的操作員和配音員透過電腦和無線通訊，「指示」香瓜博士做出各種回應。迪士尼目前仍未完全搞定，將繼續改進缺點，務求正式推出時達成效果。

The Muppet Mobile Lab is a theme park exhibit for Disney’s California Adventure. Part of Disney’s “Living Characters Initiative” project, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker are “brought to life” through the use of advanced Audio-Animatronic remote-control-puppeteering technology.  

延伸閱讀 (External Links)

Muppet Mobile Lab

“Living Characters Initiative” project

重要人員

Dave Goelz

Steve Whitmire

This 3D scanner is designed to scan a design made out of lego blocks.The results of the scan appear at aproximately 3:30.

It scans by positioning its probe above the apropriate block, then reading how many times it is able to lower the probe before it is stopped by a block. The scanner outputs the data into a text file, so that it can be used in other programs.

LEGO MINDSTORMS樂高機器人套件簡介