Apple has just released a first look at its latest robotic project – a smart robot lamp! In a research paper and accompanying ...

Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive ...

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Apple robotics researchers built a playful and charming robot inspired by Pixar's Luxo Jr. desk lamp, and it's hard not to ...

A team of engineers at Apple Computer has developed an expressive table lamp that interacts with a user rather than simply ...

Thirty nine years ago, the CG wizards at Pixar made us all believe a faceless desk lamp could be enormously expressive and incredibly cute. Apple, with its mind set on home robotics, shows us how ...

Apple Machine Learning Research has released a short video and a twelve-page accompanying paper showcasing the importance of ...

Luxo Jr. has been brightening up every Pixar film since 1995, when the anthropomorphic desk lamp first appeared on screen and stomped on the animation studio's logo in its opening credits.

Pixar’s Luxo Jr. has been a staple of the studio ... For example, a person who wants the lamp to illuminate something has to wave at it to get its attention, and then it swivels its “head ...

Not that Apple is explicitly developing this particular Pixar-style lamp for our homes. It’s hard to see how a lamp robot without a screen would be able to serve all of those purposes ...