Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Pixar's ...

Control the lamp naturally, using gestures in the air. Everybody loves Pixar’s beloved toy-lamp mascot, Luxo Jr., right? Apple just made a new lamp-like robot prototype that looks super similar. The ...

The idea of robots, for me at least, always conjures sci-fi pictures of anthropomorphic beings walking around, talking, and acting very cold and unfeeling. But Apple’s recently published research ...

Control the lamp naturally, using gestures in the air. Apple plans an ambitious return to artificial intelligence hardware with a slate of new devices, headlined by a tabletop robot designed to serve ...

Pixar has long charmed audiences with Luxo Jr., the charismatic desk lamp who hops onto the capital I in PIXAR as the animation studio's production logo unspools at the start of each of its films.

Apple’s researchers are experimenting with robotics projects, and a recent public demo of their work involved a cute robot lamp prototype. While the lamp isn’t an official new product, it still got me ...

As noted by MacRumors, Apple has prototyped a lamp-like robot with lifelike movements as shown in a post and video on the Apple Machine Learning Research website. The video shows the ...

Apple Machine Learning Research has released a short video and a twelve-page accompanying paper showcasing the importance of human-like movement in its prototyped robot. This isn't the first time ...