Disney

The Walt Disney Company (Disney) is an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in Burbank, California, founded on 16 October 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney. It operates film and television studios (including Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm), television networks (ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel), streaming services (Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+) and theme parks and cruises under Disney Experiences. In AI and robotics, Disney works through Disney Research and Walt Disney Imagineering, which has developed animatronics (Audio-Animatronics) for decades. A newer direction is the BDX droids — bipedal, free-roaming entertainment robots trained with reinforcement learning in simulation. In 2025, Disney Research, together with NVIDIA and Google DeepMind, announced the open-source Newton physics engine for robot simulation and training. The company is listed on the NYSE under the ticker DIS.