RoboticsGreater Los Angeles

The Walt Disney Company

Robotics · Burbank, CA

Burbank media conglomerate, and one of LA's deepest engineering operations. Walt Disney Animation Studios runs feature render pipelines (the Hyperion renderer); Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) is the R&D/engineering arm behind audio-animatronics (since 1963) and modern robotics — autonomous "stuntronics" acrobats, free-roaming BDX droids, ride systems. Overlooked read: Disney is render compute AND a serious animatronics/robotics engineering shop — the engineering team Hollywood forgets it has.

Founded

1923

Region

Greater Los Angeles

Investors

People

About Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a sprawling basin with no single center, home to Hollywood but also, less visibly, to one of the country's largest historic concentrations of aerospace employment — Douglas, Lockheed, and Caltech's JPL all built deep engineering talent there before the "entertainment capital" label took over. USC, UCLA, and Caltech all anchor different corners of that same base, and the render-and-storage infrastructure behind modern film and media is a direct descendant of both industries.

Region Stats

Total firms 59

VC / investors 26

Companies 25

Schools 8

Known For

Hollywood

Filmtech

Render & Storage