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Re:Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Charac... by pfych on Sunday December 21, 2025 @11:07PM (#46351213)
Someones linked in this thread the Defunctland video essay on these characters that I highly recommend watching since it goes into this in detail.

But the main reason is, there's a lot of brand imagery on the line with these interactions, someone putting on a voice, or using a voice changer could make a mistake. Disney instead have a conversation tree with pre-recorded voice lines that a remote operator can control. Much harder to mess up

Re:Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Charac... by dotancohen on Sunday December 21, 2025 @11:50PM (#46351409)
And possibly more importantly, much easier to keep doing for hours on end. There's no need for a highly trained actor.