Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

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

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 1995, when the anthropomorphic desk lamp first appeared on screen and ...

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 has published a new research paper that argues traits like expressive movements are foundational to human-robot ...

This is of course inspired by the lamp from Pixar’s Luxo Jr ... in the lamp as the bulb has been replaced by a webcam. The image is monitored using OpenCV to include face tracking as one ...

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, ...

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

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 ...