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

Home robots could open a new avenue for hardware sales while leveraging the company's work in AI and machine learning. Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the lamp robot.

The robotics scientists and engineers detailed the project in a paper shared to Apple's Machine Learning Research site in January under the ... Read more: There Sure Are a Lot of Robots at CES: Here's ...

Learn More Apple researchers have developed a new framework for making non-humanoid robots move more naturally and expressively during interactions with people, potentially paving the way for more ...

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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 ...

What is Apple’s ELEGNT? ELEGANT is not the name of the prototype but a movement design framework for non-anthropomorphic robots—machines that do not resemble human forms. Apple’s prototype lamp, for ...

While the company often conducts hardware and software research that may never make it into a product, Gurman’s suggestion that a tabletop robot could come to fruition has recently garnered some ...

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction.

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 ...

In a research paper published in January 2025, Apple argues that 'characteristics such as expressive movement are key to optimizing human-robot interaction.' To illustrate this, Apple is ...