Meet the Pinokio Lamp. The brain child of Adam Ben-Dror, Shanshan Zhou, and Joss Dogett, the Pinokio Lamp is something that will instantly be familiar to anyone who has seen a few Pixar films. Except ...

TL;DR: Apple is developing an AI tabletop robot, internally called the "Pixar Lamp," set for a 2027 release. Featuring a 7-inch display and advanced Siri integration, it offers dynamic, context-aware ...

Mi-Mo is a customizable general-purpose AI robot from Tokyo-based robotics company Jizai, Inc. Unveiled at CES 2025, the goal is for Mi-Mo to one day be an in-home assistant. But for now, the “living” ...

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 iPhone giant’s machine learning research team developed ...

Unlike some of the robots we’ve seen at CES 2025, Mi-Mo doesn’t have a face, but it still looks a little familiar thanks to its resemblance to the iconic Pixar lamp. Mi-Mo is still just a prototype, ...

Apple was clearly caught off guard when AI took over the technology world a few years ago. Following a series of unfulfilled promises made during the WWDC 2024 keynote, the company reportedly wants to ...

Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning where the machine is scored on their performance (“evaluation function”). Over the course of a training session, behavior that improved final ...

Apple has shown us a peek into the long term future with its Pixar-like robot, a peek into the very near future with the iPhone SE 4, and just maybe an alternative future where it makes all its apps ...

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. “Like ...

Thinkway Toys’s Pixar desk accessory/lamp/toy/thingamabob has a Luxo Jr. that moves and illuminates exactly like in the movie. As you can see in the video, you can ...