Apple engineers have created a real-life Pixar lamp, also known as Luxo Jr., powered by Apple Intelligence. It was basically designed to explore the interplay between functional and expressive objectives in movement design.
Engineers decided to take a research-through-design methodology as they documented the hardware design process, defined expressive movement primitives, and outlined a set of interaction scenario storyboards. This proposed framework incorporates both functional and expressive utilities during movement generation, while implementing the robot behavior sequences in different function- and social- oriented tasks.
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Through a user study comparing expression-driven versus function-driven movements across six task scenarios, our findings indicate that expression-driven movements significantly enhance user engagement and perceived robot qualities. This effect is especially pronounced in social-oriented tasks,” said the researchers.
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