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Disney Robot-Toy Makers Sphero Now Making Robots for Frontliners By Techtonic group Sphero is a consumer robotics company that focuses on making fun toy robots for kids to learn with. The company built Disney's BB-8 and R2-D2 toy robots. However, when the licensing deal went off back in 2018, the company stopped making Disney robots. Now, the robot-makers have created a new start-up to make robots specifically for the healthcare workers, police, and the military. The new start-up, named  Company Six (CO6), plans to develop reliable robots to help medical workers,  like  Diligent's Moxi . It also plans to help the law enforcement authorities and the military by providing them with strong, robust robots. Currently, the company builds robots using STEM focusing on education. Now, we do not know at this moment what type of robots will the company develop. However, considering Sphero's experience in making robots focusing on mobility,  we can expect the compan...

Disney Has Opened It's Shanghai Park with New Safety Measures By Techtonic group Earlier this year, like  many of the major tech events , Disney shut down its theme parks around the world in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. Well, now, as China has started to regain control, Disney has opened its park in the city of Shanghai for citizens, but with numerous new precautions complying to social distancing norms. While the Shanghai park has a capacity of up to 80,000 visitors, it was announced earlier last week that the park would reopen with strict new measures and the capacity would be capped to 30% (24,000 visitors/day), complying to government restrictions. Following this announcement, Disney CEO, Bob Chapek stated that  the Shanghai park would initially reopen with an unspecified capacity lower than 30%  and gradually increase it to the 30% threshold. The Senior VP of Operations for the Walt Disney Co., Andrew Bolstein recently took journalists on a tour ...

Get a Mask of Your Favourite Disney Character While Donating to Fight COVID-19 By Techtonic group As the current global pandemic rages throughout the world,  masks  have become a priority for people when out in public, as per the CDC's recommendation. We have seen companies like  Uber ,  TikTok  and many others donate masks for the frontliners to fight COV-19. Now, Disney has announced its new range of masks that come with your favourite Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters imprinted on them. And by buying these, you will be donating your contribution to the current fight against the Novel Coronavirus. The new non-surgical and non-industrial cloth face masks from Disney come in varied sizes -- small, medium and large. These also feature many fan favourite Disney characters like  Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Woody and Buzz, Anna and Elsa, The Avengers and even Baby Yoda . “Our hope is that Disney’s cloth face masks featuring some of our mos...