Le Lamp – an open source expressive robot

Re:Le Lamp – an open source expressive robot by shav7 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @08:01AM (#44875155)

Expressive interaction design is the missing layer in robotics. The future isn’t just functional robots - it’s robots that feel natural to use and are designed from the ground up for expressive human-robot interaction.

We will continue iterating Le Lamp to make it expressive and useful in the upcoming weeks.

our github: https://github.com/humancomputerlab/LeLamp/

community: https://discord.gg/wVF99EtRzg

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Re:Le Lamp – an open source expressive robot by ofrzeta on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:56AM (#44897170)

No reference to Luxo jr.? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxo_Jr.

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Re:Le Lamp – an open source expressive robot by divan on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:23AM (#44897684)

sorry to be that person in the comments, but is there any video of how exactly it is expressive? the photo of the messy table doesn't really conveys the idea or explains how exactly this lamp on the robotic arm behaves.

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Re:Le Lamp – an open source expressive robot by Gys on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:01AM (#44897928)

The Apple lab has a video demonstrating the difference between expressive and functional:

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/elegnt-expressive...

I think this is the goal of LeLamp.

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