Animatronic puppetry has application in a variety of situations. The obvious context is film and television, but animatronics are being increasingly widely used - amusement parks, shopping centres, educational facilities such as SciTech - there is a growing demand for the ability to control "lifelike" puppets through computer interfaces.

The puppet displayed here is named "x92". The title is derived from the unit numbers of two subjects at Curtin - Animatronic Design 292 and Mechatronic Project 492. This work represents a collaborative effort by students at Curtin to design, build maintain and control animatronic puppets through easy to use computer interfaces.