A California company has turned Pixar’s famous hopping lamp into a lively desk companion. Interaction Labs has created Ongo, a robotic smart lamp that can move, listen, interpret its surroundings and ...

The Walt Disney Company and Pixar are reportedly being sued for copyright infringement by lamp company Luxo. The animation studio has used a hopping swivel lamp as its mascot since founder John ...

Another adorable scene shows Ongo bopping to the sound of music in the next room when his owners are having a party.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘Luxo Jr.,’ the squeaky desk-lamp character created by John Lasseter ...

Pixar’s Luxo Jr., the sworn enemy of the letter “I,” has been introducing some of our favorite films for decades. That eager lamp is truly an iconic piece of animated furniture. Now it’s also a ...

The same week the company retired its hydraulic Atlas model, it unveiled a first look at the newest version of the humanoid. While this robot looks more human-like than its predecessor, it can move in ...

An animatronic table lamp that has come to symbolize the animation studio it helped form finally stands atop the Pixar Pier marquee arch in Disney California Adventure four months after the ...

Two new papers highlight promising methods for making shapeshifting structures. Later that same year, MIT scientists created a class of so-called “4D materials” that employ the same manufacturing ...

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 ...