Apple robotics researchers built a playful and charming robot inspired by Pixar's Luxo Jr. desk lamp, and it's hard not to ...
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 take its place. Now, engineers at Apple have brought Luxo Jr. to life off the ...
Apple has just released a first look at its latest robotic project – a smart robot lamp! In a research paper and accompanying ...
A team of engineers at Apple has developed an expressive table lamp that interacts with a user rather than simply carrying ...
The answer to this conundrum might be found in a 1986 Pixar short film called "Luxo Jr." For those unfamiliar with the ...
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.
MacRumors spotted the article and uploaded a YouTube video of the expressive lamp in action. It’s a device that’s immediately reminiscent of Pixar’s mascot Luxo Jr., and it’s somehow just ...
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 ...
Both have the same design which looks pretty similar to the Pixar lamp a.k.a Luxo Jr. As a table top lamp, the Apple smart robot lamp is compact but its ‘arm’ means it can stretch far and move ...