The new Apple robot looks like the Pixar lamp
Elegnt of Apple, like many others robotsPerforms functional movements such as the efficiency of tasks, overcome it spatial constraints and the demonstration of time efficiency. But the Pixar-The lamp also has expressive qualities characteristic of humans, such as paying attention, showing intention and attitude.
A study of Apple‘s Automatic learning searchwhich focuses on the manufacture of non -anthropomorphic robots which are both utilitarian and engaging, involved a team of tests how humans interact with a robot focused on the expression compared to a robot focused on the function. The researchers spread this on six different tasks. Asked about the weather outside, the expressive robot turns to the window, a bit like a person, before he reports. He also prepares to stretch his body when asked to reach the other corner of the office, he dances to music in the kitchen and seems to express a disappointment when he was told that he was not Invited to a hike outside the house.
According to Apple’s team, these expression movements improve how users are committed and perceive the robot, in particular with regard to social oriented tasks. And although it does not yet know when and if the prototype lamp will be available for purchase, Apple seems to move its goal to robotics at home.
