animatronic

/ ˌænɪməˈtrɒnɪk /

adjective

1. of, concerned with, or operated by animatronics

   animatronic dinosaurs

Example Sentences

At the time, he worked at the kitschy Rainforest Café in Piccadilly Circus — a now-defunct theme restaurant with animatronic animals — to help pay for his tuition.

From Los Angeles Times

This year’s Halloween Horror Nights contains mazes centered around franchises such as “A Quiet Place” and “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” the former an alien-invasion tale that saw the park investing in multiple animatronic figures and the latter one that leans a bit more comedic.

From Los Angeles Times

In “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” Blundell said that she and animatronic and special makeup effects supervisor Neal Scanlan worked together to craft a quick mask with yellow-painted ping-pong balls to simulate Beetlejuice’s suddenly googly eyes when he looks at the sun.

From Los Angeles Times

He was also known for voicing the animatronic Abraham Lincoln at Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents.

From BBC

“We knew we were going to create an animatronic,” says Alvarez, using the term for an on-set lifelike robot, “and that later we were going to do CGI enhancements in the mouth and in the eyes depending on the shots. “Then the question arose, ‘What face does it have? Who is it?’

From Los Angeles Times