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

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.

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 ...

Pixar’s Luxo Jr. has been a staple of the studio’s opening credits for decades. He appears in front of the PIXAR logo and hops up ... a person who wants the lamp to illuminate something ...

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 ...

The device, which somewhat resembles the lamp from the Pixar screensaver, can be seen in the videos previously published on Apple Machine Learning Research. In the video, the researcher performs a ...

The robot in question, an adorable lamp that resembles Pixar’s iconic Luxo, is shown performing a variety of tasks with human-like expressions, rather than being strictly functional. For example ...

However, it does not do so in an overly mechanical manner, but rather with small, engaging movements; think of the Pixar lamp robot that bounces up and down on the screen before a film begins.

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