Apple's new robot looks like Pixar Lamp

As a lover of lava lamps, [Julian Butler] knew when he saw a coworker’s modern LED incarnation of the classic piece of illuminated decor that he had to have one for himself. The only problem was ...
After all, lamps don’t possess any obvious humanlike traits, but they can be made to behave in familiar ways. “For robots to interact more naturally with humans,” the paper notes ...
A team of robotics researchers at Apple have designed and prototyped a lamp-like robot with lifelike movements, according to a blog post and accompanying video published last month on the Apple ...