Last month it was revealed that an Apple research team had developed an expressive robot lamp seemingly inspired by Pixar’s ...

Its purpose, like any ordinary lamp, is to provide light via a bulb ... More information: Yuhan Hu et al, ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot, arXiv ...

In a task requiring the robot to light an object for photography, the functional machine primarily holds still, only moving in direct response to user input. The expressive robot sways its ...