Baymax!, the Disney sequel to 2014's Big Hero 6, will debut on June 29th. Disney shared the release date on Friday, alongside a new trailer showing the loveable healthcare robot from the film attempting to help the citizens of San Fransokyo. "In each of our six episodes, Baymax just wants to help someone--and a lot of times they don't want to be helped," said creator Don Hall. "He sets out to fix a physical issue that he's identified, and in the process, gets to a deeper, more emotional place and can be almost transformative in that role." Baymax! is the second Big Hero 6 sequel following Big Hero 6: The Series, a 2D animated show that ran for three seasons on the Disney Channel.

If you've seen the movie Big Hero 6, you're acquainted with Baymax, the lovable personal healthcare companion with a tendency of getting stuck in windows because he's basically the Michelin Man with a computer program. Baymax was designed to come "awake" at any sounds or indications of distress in his patient and go…

I'm sure most of my readers are avid movie watchers. Let's look at one of Disney's animated movies that were a good amalgamation of emotions with science. We're talking about a Disney movie where a robot (read, healthcare companion) is designed to provide medical aid and assistance to humans. The robot is designed to never harm humans but talks to them and through them of all their issues pertaining to mental and physical health. The robot sacrifices its life to save the protagonist's life in the end.

The ethical landscape surrounding the use and widespread implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) is vast and complex. The forthcoming AI revolution will change the world, and our lives, in ways no other industrial revolution has done. Everyone should be forming opinions on the ethics of AI. Humans are capable of great acts of positive progress (e.g. AI will be no different.

The octopus is unique among animals in that it can essentially turn itself into liquid, Terminator style. Get yourself a 600-pound octopus and leave it unsupervised and the thing will squeeze itself into a quarter-sized tube and melt its way to freedom. And its manipulation superpowers are legendary--cram it into a jar and it'll unscrew its way out. So it goes when you've got no bones. And loosey-goosey octopuses can teach us a thing or two about robots. An company called Soft Robotics has developed an inflatable, cephalopod-inspired gripper made of pliable polymer fingers.

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. Last weekend saw the release of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," a movie that at least one critic maintains is salvaged by the introduction of a brilliant new droid. On that note, what -- or who? -- is the greatest of all movie robots? The only reasonable answer is Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet." A trailblazer for android-kind, he was the first instance of a bag of bolts that actually had personality, charm, a sense of fully-formed character.

Disney Research has built a soft robotic arm that looks like it could easily belong to a real-life Baymax, if the movie "Big Hero 6" was about to come to life. For more videos, subscribe to Mashable Daily: http://on.mash.to/SubscribeNews Give us a follow: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mashable/

The charming robot at the heart of Disney's Big Hero 6, Baymax, isn't exactly realistic, but its puffy bod is an (admittedly aspirational) example of the growing field of soft robotics. And now Disney itself has produced a soft robot arm that seems like it could be a prototype from the movie. Created by Disney Research roboticists, the arm seems clearly inspired by Baymax, from the overstuffed style and delicate sausage fingers to the internal projector that can show status or information to nearby people. "Where physical human-robot interaction is expected, robots should be compliant and reactive to avoid human injury and hardware damage," the researchers write in the paper describing the system. "Our goal is the realization of a robot arm and hand system which can physically interact with humans and gently manipulate objects."

The next time you're strolling through a Walt Disney theme park, your snugly hug or photo with your favorite character may be with a super realistic robot-- and not a person in a costume. Disney Enterprises Inc. announced it has filed a U.S. patent for a 3D printed, interactive, soft robot. The application describes the new "soft body" robot to be built specifically for "physical interaction with humans." Disney has a dedicated robotics research department, which is currently developing several projects designed to create a "future in which robots interact with humans in complex, unpredictable environments." If thoughts of a sci-fi world where sentient Disney characters take over the planet and wipe out humanity crossed your mind, fear not, the patent details the robots will actually be operated via a romote controlled device.

AMC's latest Sci-Fi show Humans takes us into another world. A world, that....actually, looks incredibly familiar. The streets, the cars, the landscape, the computers, all seem pretty close to our world today. Except for, you know, the eerily humanoid robots that are there to serve humanity's every whim. Those robots, called "Synths," are the centerpiece of a show that tackles our hopes and fears of artificial intelligence.