animated objects

The quotation comes from How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep

Quotation: If you’re tracking your sleep on your phone, wait until morning to check your stats.

Or do as Mr. Rose at M.I.T. does. Mr. Rose lives with a collection of interactive furniture and animated objects, like Alexa by Amazon and Personal Assistant by Google and Aura, a sleep tracker and alarm clock by Withings that looks like a ship’s funnel and uses light to regulate melatonin.
===
Hi everyone! Does "animated objects" mean "objects that appear to have life"?

Yes - but more: "have an animation (i.e. movement) of some type."