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

ArduinoArts is animating an inexpensive Ikea lamp as a contest entry. Seeed Studio’s Toy Hacking Contest calls for the competitors to work their magic using the Grove Toy Kit, which is an ...

Pixar has long charmed audiences with ... "Although primarily appliance-like, it incorporates subtle anthropomorphic elements — such as the lamp head and the arm connecting the head to the ...

Apple researchers have unveiled an anthropomorphic lamp — think how Pixar's logo lamp is so human — and while it's a demonstration of general research, it does also suggest a new direction for ...

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 ...

Apple has released a research paper and video detailing a smart robot lamp. With a Pixar-style design ... and Fucntional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot’. Authored by Yuhan ...

Since Pixar first debuted in an eponymous ... For its research, Apple, too, chose a lamp for its own “non-anthropomorphic” example. After all, lamps don’t possess any obvious humanlike ...

From this point, the studio started to create its iconic characters; the Oscar-nominated 1986 short film “Luxo Jr.” introduced an anthropomorphic desk lamp that became Pixar’s eventual ...

Additionally, it was revealed that Apple is working on a Pixar-style lamp robot as part of these plans, but there are limited details yet on its latest foray into the world of robotics.

This year, Sundquist dressed up as the thing you usually see right before you're about to watch an animated movie and cry for 90 minutes: The Pixar lamp — perhaps our greatest source of light in ...