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

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 ...

Both robots are desk-style lamps on an articulating arm, with what appears to be an LED light, camera, speaker, and projector ...

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

A new research paper from Apple Machine Learning just revealed it has built a robot lamp prototype that is super-cute and ...

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.

The rumors that Apple is developing a home robot don’t seem so unfounded, given the new development of its research division. The device, which somewhat resembles the lamp from the Pixar screensaver, ...

This is of course inspired by the lamp from Pixar’s Luxo Jr. short film. But there’s a little bit of most useless machine added just for fun. If you try to shut it off the lamp shade is used ...

But for now, the “living” Pixar lamp can move around and hold up a short conversation. The team at Jizai is planning on releasing a developer kit with the consumer version of Mi-Mo so users ...