The desk lamp form for the prototype was a deliberate choice. The researchers gave a shout-out to the 1986 Pixar Luxo Jr. short film that features the now-iconic desk lamp playing with a ball ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This prototype robot developed by Apple engineers and scientists was inspired by Pixar's mascot.

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must locate them while trying to survive in a new country.

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, ...

In simpler terms, Apple has a robotic lamp that evokes major Pixar Luxo Jr. vibes, and I’d be super-happy to see it eventually come to market. Even at this early stage, it’s a much more ...

Apple Machine Learning Research has released a short video and a twelve-page accompanying paper showcasing the importance of ...