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 such ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Pixar's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

Apple Inc. is preparing a major push into artificial intelligence with new devices across the home and personal tech markets. The company’s pipeline includes a tabletop robot, an upgraded Siri, a ...

One of Hollywood’s most iconic romances is also one of its most unlikely. Who could have imagined that two robots meeting on an abandoned garbage planet would create something magical together? But ...

After rewatching the 2024 animated movie The Wild Robotrecently, I am convinced that DreamWorks caught up with its rival animation studio, Pixar, 3 years ago. Peter Brown’s book adaptation of The Wild ...