Mechanical birds, bears and princesses have chirped, growled and sung in Orlando’s theme parks for more than 50 years. The animatronic trend shows no signs of fading, as new figures arrive in new ...

An enormous, six-legged ride-in hydraulic robot has been unveiled by its British designer, who spent four years building it just for fun. Designed and built by Matt Denton, an animatronics expert from ...

If Disney was impressed by a basic bird-in-a-cage automaton, these pistols would have blown his mind. Beak movement, head movement, wing movement, body rotation and movement, all synchronised to ...