Apple Showcases Robot Prototype With Lifelike Movements and Expressive Interactions

Apple’s ELEGNT framework could make home robots feel less like machines and more like companions

Apple introduces ELEGNT, allowing robots to convey intentions, emotions and attitudes through movement, — rather than just functional tasks.

Apple experiments with lamp-like robot ELEGNT that uses ‘cute’ movements for better engagement

’ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot,’ is credited to Apple’s Yuhan Hu, Peide Huang, Mouli Sivapurapu, and Jian Zhang.

Apple previews robotic table-top lamp prototype: All you need to know

Apple robotic table top lamp: Apple describes the prototype as possessing both functional and expressive characteristics, enabling interaction through gestures, postures, and more

Apple Made a Real-Life Pixar Lamp

It doesn't hop, though.

Apple built a super-cute, expressive robot lamp that is giving us major Pixar vibes

A new research paper from Apple Machine Learning just revealed it has built a robot lamp prototype that is super-cute and reminiscent of Pixar's Luxo Jr. lamp.

Apple’s tabletop robot has some moves

An Apple researcher dances along with the tabletop robot lamp in a new video published on the company’s research site. | Video: Apple We’ve got more evidence that Apple is developing a tabletop robot for the home, courtesy of a blog post published on Apple’s Machine Learning Research site. First spotted by MacRumors, the post summarizes a paper by an Apple research team that developed a robot with expressive movements to see how much more engagi…