This playful and charming robot inspired by Pixar's Luxo Jr. desk lamp was built by Apple robotics researchers.

Last month it was revealed that an Apple research team had developed an expressive robot lamp seemingly inspired by Pixar’s Luxo Jr. mascot. Although highly-articulated, Apple’s robot wasn’t mobile, ...

With a Pixar-style design ... The video shows the Apple smart robot lamp being put through six task scenarios in its functional and expressive modes. As the research states, the researchers ...

Both have the same design which looks pretty similar to the Pixar lamp a.k.a Luxo Jr ... The video shows the Apple smart robot lamp being put through six task scenarios in its functional and ...

It features six joints enabling flexible movement ... Lucasfilm’s animation division in 1986 and turned it into Pixar. That lamp, which starred in Pixar’s first animated film, became a ...