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

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 has developed an expressive table lamp that interacts with a user rather than simply carrying ...

Apple has released a research paper and video detailing a smart robot lamp. With a Pixar-style design, Apple has developed two robot models to complete everyday tasks, including play music ...

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 ...

Luxo Jr. has been brightening up every Pixar film since ... the video on this page over on Apple's site, as well as in the X post embedded below. As you'll see, the robot lamp is equipped with ...

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 ...

Since Pixar first debuted in an eponymous 1985 short film, the Luxo Jr. lamp has served as the animation studio’s long-time mascot. For its research, Apple, too, chose a lamp for its own “non ...