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Apple’s tabletop robot has some moves

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A new paper from Apple's Machine Learning Research site sheds some light on the company’s plans for robotics in the home.

The paper summarizes a paper by an Apple research team that developed a robot with expressive movements to see how much more engaging it is than a standard robot.

Both robots are desk-style lamps on an articulating arm, with what appears to be an LED light, camera, speaker, and projector built in.

One of them exhibits a lot of personality.

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53

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43

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informal

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English

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44

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