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

With a Pixar-style design ... camera and projector. 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 accompanying video shows two versions of the robot lamp, one that’s ‘Functional ... Both have the same design which looks ...

[Alonso Martinez] is an artist working on virtual characters at Pixar so it’s no wonder that his real life robots, Mira and Gertie, have personalities that make them seem like they jumped ...

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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 ...

For nearly 20 years, it was basically a guarantee that if a Pixar movie was up for the award, it would win. However, over the past five years, that dynamic has shifted, with an increasing number ...

no longer cold and detached robots, but rather machines capable of conveying intent, attention, and even emotion through movement. It’s hard to ignore the resemblance between ELEGNT and Pixar ...

American filmmakers and brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, the directing team behind Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” ...