let’s maybe get my phone to work the way it should and then we can talk about robots that follow people around sweetie
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Apple Exploring 'Mobile Robot' That 'Follows Users Around Their Homes'
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The next big thing isn’t going to happen without the misfits. The Apple car failed because of the lack of clear and simple vision. This Robot pet will end up in the “can’t do it” closet with the Apple TV with HomePod with screen with coffee machine with …
Hey now, that’s not fair! 🤣What? you would not a real life Wall-E following you around?
I’m kind of amazed by the lack of comments regarding people working for Apple leaking information. I guess it’s just the world we live in now where that does not raise eyebrows.
Amazon failed in their iRobot acquisition. I wonder if Apple would be interested. An Apple designed Roomba would be awesome.
It makes sense to pivot to robotics from the car. Very similar set of technologies, far less consequential to human lives when something goes wrong. Robotic assistants will be a larger industry than automotive in the coming decades.
It makes sense to pivot to robotics from the car. Very similar set of technologies, far less consequential to human lives when something goes wrong. Robotic assistants will be a larger industry than automotive in the coming decades.
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i'll quote you in 25 years my friend. IT Aint happening.
Just like self driving cars won't happen in 25 years either.
While this is inevitable, the notion of buying one from a major tech corp has some real ups and downs. On the down side, it'll be full-time connected like a dumb terminal, it'll rely on hoovering up your data to pipe back to their HQ for processing, it'll be unhackable under pain of death, and it'll be G rated at all times, and will probably alert authorities if you try getting at all freaky with it. On the other hand, buying from a company that isn't a dystopian tech giant could mean a less reputable organization, or one that was reputable but just got a great offer from the police dept and have happily sold access to it.
I seem to remember about a decade ago Bill Gates talking about building a platform for robotics similar to how MS was a platform for business, standardizing and putting robotic software components into coordinated modules for access worldwide so everyone doesn't have to keep spending a fortune rewriting everything from the ground up. Perhaps an open source bot that you can load your automotive maintenance module into, the cooking & cleaning modules, home security, dog walking, and dangerous amour modules into while still maintaining transparency and full control over it. If it says it's going to report you to the feds because it thinks you swear too much, you can just pull the comms module completely and use it offline, or if it starts talking about burying you in the back yard and using your house for its own purposes, you can just pull the psycho robot from hell module. I can't imagine any of these tech giants letting you do that considering the vise grip they squeeze on your phone.
I seem to remember about a decade ago Bill Gates talking about building a platform for robotics similar to how MS was a platform for business, standardizing and putting robotic software components into coordinated modules for access worldwide so everyone doesn't have to keep spending a fortune rewriting everything from the ground up. Perhaps an open source bot that you can load your automotive maintenance module into, the cooking & cleaning modules, home security, dog walking, and dangerous amour modules into while still maintaining transparency and full control over it. If it says it's going to report you to the feds because it thinks you swear too much, you can just pull the comms module completely and use it offline, or if it starts talking about burying you in the back yard and using your house for its own purposes, you can just pull the psycho robot from hell module. I can't imagine any of these tech giants letting you do that considering the vise grip they squeeze on your phone.
Everything to make the world, more lazy, more obese, and obsolete. Sure. Great idea.
Tesla's heydays are already passed them. The production demand will continue to reduce itself and Tesla will diversify more and more emphasis away from automobiles and more towards power distribution to survive.
Yeah, electric cars may be the future, but if they’re Tesla’s future remains to be seen.
Apple is exploring various "personal robotics" projects in an effort to create its "next big thing," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. One of these projects is described as a "mobile robot" that would "follow users around their homes," while another is said to be an "advanced table-top home device that uses robotics to move a display around":
I wonder if the above HomePod with display rumor is the Apple robotics rumor?
GenAI is disrupting robotics quickly and, if Apple doesn't make this happen in 5 years, they might end up too far behind to be relevant. This is exactly the kind of project they should be going all-in on. But Tim Cook lacks vision.
Hopefully they can put one of these in charge of Apple to replace Cyborg v1.0. The current version is overseeing some of the most preposterous design choices and user-hostile strategies imaginable. So bad that everyone I know in RL is taking a step back and putting their wallet away.