Still, there are animatronics out there that make a good go at the job, of which this somewhat creepy mechanical mouth is a fine example. Why exactly [Will Cogley] felt the need to build a ...

The Dinosaur Realm exhibit at Colchester Zoo, which opened in April last year, takes visitors down a trail surrounded by animatronic dinosaurs, mist sprays and realistic soundscapes.

an animatronic bear from the 1980s whose mouth moved as it read stories from cassette tapes. Cleverly, the engineers used one stereo channel for the story’s audio, and the other channel to ...

Notice how the Giganotosaurus' tongue bounces when it opens its mouth, or how its skin reacts when it roars. Those reactions all happened in-camera from this animatronic Giga puppet, built to look ...