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

A team of engineers at Apple has developed an expressive table lamp that interacts with a user rather than simply carrying ...

Luxo Jr. has been brightening up every Pixar film since 1995, when the anthropomorphic desk lamp first appeared on screen and ...

He appears in front of the PIXAR logo and hops up onto the capital “I,” jumping on it until he squashes it and then has to ...

In what can only be an homage to Apple’s legendary co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, the lamp bears a striking resemblance to ...

Human-like robots don't need humanoid bodies. They just need to be expressive. (Well, they don't need to be, but they will be.) ...

"In this paper, we present the design and prototype of a lamp-like robot that explores the interplay between functional and expressive goals in motion design," the paper states. It even describes ...

Since Pixar first debuted in an eponymous 1985 short film, the Luxo Jr. lamp has served as the animation studio’s long-time mascot. For its research, Apple, too, chose a lamp for its own “non ...