Freshly thrown away electric car project, Apple appears to be switching to something quite different. It is a home robot. Engineers at the iPhone company have been working on a type of “personal robotics” device that could live with you and follow you around. Bloomberg reported thursday. You’re basically a robot roommate.
This product is known to be still in the research and development stage, and its final release date is unclear. According to the report, the company has also developed an “advanced tabletop home device that uses robotics to move the display,” which essentially sounds like a kind of “responsive” TV screen. According to the report, these developments are taking place through a collaboration of machine learning groups within Apple’s hardware engineering department.
Gizmodo has reached out to Apple for comment and will update this story if we hear back.
Aside from the Roomba, the tech industry has had little success in pioneering the home robot market. The boldest move was Amazon’s 2021 launch of the Astro, an iPad with wheels, which met with a fairly muted response. The bot is, Arguably a creepy privacy disasterIt didn’t sell well, and the company had trouble finding a marketable product. Purpose of the product. Last I heard, it was Amazon. Trying to get it to market. As a sort of small business “security guard” it seems questionable.
Will Apple succeed where Amazon failed? Only time will tell. They say never go against Apple, but the company known for its beautiful and captivating product lines has made some notable missteps in recent years. First, a stimulating VR product vision proDebuted to mixed reviews and is currently Apple car is dead. Should we hold our breath for Apple’s housekeeper, or should we just roll our eyes and be patient? iphone 16?