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 ...

For those who love Pixar's Luxo Jr., Apple's engineers developed a lamp that swivels with excitement as it obeys your every whim. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Thirty nine years ago, the CG ...

Apple plans an ambitious return to artificial intelligence hardware with a slate of new devices, headlined by a tabletop robot designed to serve as an interactive AI companion, according to a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...