The studio's golden run (Toy Story through Toy Story 3) remains one of the most inspired stretches of production we've ever gotten in the history of film, and there have been some great movies to ...

Human-like robots don't need humanoid bodies. They just need to be expressive. (Well, they don't need to be, but they will be ...

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 historic computer-animated film, it depicts two desk lamps as they interact with ...

Both robots are desk-style lamps on an articulating arm, with what appears to be an LED light, camera, speaker, and projector ...

Inside, there’s a nod to every Pixar feature film to date (27 in total), from classics such as Toy Story and The Incredibles ... where a large sculpture of the Pixar Lamp balancing atop its ...

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 ...

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from the original movie to 2020's "Lamp Life" short film. Every 'Toy Story' movie, special, short, and show on Disney Plus 'Toy Story' (1995) Pixar's first feature film, "Toy Story," was also the ...

Thirty nine years ago, the CG wizards at Pixar made us all believe a faceless desk lamp could be enormously expressive and incredibly cute. Apple, with its mind set on home robotics, shows us how ...

Pixar’s Luxo Jr. has been a staple of the studio ... For example, a person who wants the lamp to illuminate something has to wave at it to get its attention, and then it swivels its “head ...

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.