Entertainment robotics covers robots built for guest experiences, parks, events, film, museums, hotels and live performance. The category includes animatronics, scripted robots, remote-controlled machines, social robots and autonomous mobile robots.
The most important distinction is control. An animatronic figure may be precisely scripted. A teleoperated robot may look autonomous but depend on a human operator. An autonomous robot must sense and make bounded decisions in its environment.
A documented example: Ameca’s mouth movement
Engineered Arts’ Ameca brochure describes jaw and lip motion that can be choreographed to a script or synchronized automatically to audio. This is a manufacturer description of facial control. It provides no measure of autonomous planning, manipulation success or operating reliability.