If it actually has an hand then it might be able to move things, like the new Roborock vacuum. Dunno what exactly but that’s an option.
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Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot With Lifelike Movements Ahead of Rumored Launch by 2027
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I hope Apple fixes the braindead Siri first. It otherwise might give you a headbutt when asking something 😂
Well, I honestly think that half of his stuff is spoon fed by Apple, intentionally
A car . A robot . A TV / a Car a Robot a tv / a car a robot a tv … don’t you get it ? Those are not three products but one and we call it iBin …
I don’t want to know what that robot might do if it saw me making love to my wife
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The part you are missing is how Apple makes what I presume will probably be $1499-$2499 for this thing. If you do it yourself, how does Apple profit?
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Turn on or off the lighting depending on the beauty or horror of the scene, possibly fire lasers to incinerate you both because of Apple's overarching take to such stuff and/or get ideas and start making moves towards your nightstand lamp.
If it is equipped with Siri: "I don't know what you mean by 'oooooooh, ahhhhhhhhh,' Here's what I found on the web for 'oooooooh, ahhhhhhhhh.'”
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If it was under $350 I'd get one for my computer desk. Might go higher if it could pour wine in a glass and push it towards me.
Intelligent robotics is the future of computing, not Vision goggles
Why though? It's a neat trick - that grows old within hours or days.
- Why take the time to look out the window - when you look up the forecast from the internet anyway
- ...and be many seconds quicker to provide it to me without it?
- Why wouldn't I just ask my iPhone lying on the table besides me
- ...the iPhone that I actually could take outside as a useful "companion" and navigation device
I get it. Rather than having a mere sound notification, make the reminder is physically relatable.
- Did anyone in the world ask for a machine moving mugs or glasses of water on their work desks though?
- If anything, they'd ask to move them away from them typing away and gesturing at their PCs, as a means of accident prevention
- Later in the video, the robot observes the person building a 3D printer and projects a relevant tutorial video on the wall.
- On the wall? Did you see what my walls are made of and how well their surface is usable for image projection?
- Wouldn't "augmented reality" guidance be much more useful?
- ...and wasn't that supposed to be the job of your augmented reality visors (the "Vision Pro"?)
- Why? Doesn't my sound system do that? Better...!?
- Wasn't that the job of my homepods - in nice stereo configuration?
- As if we aren't all spending way too much time with our digital devices?
- Didn't you just "invent" a feature that would help us limit our screen time and allow for more real-world social interaction?
Actually bloody useful.
- Just begs the question: Why can't you integrate that into my iPads - so that I can use it anywhere?
- Ah, wait... you already did.
- So here's my question: Couldn't you just stick another, better wide-angle lens into my iPad. Or my Apple tv. And use your computational image magic to center-stage me in an even wider field of view? That would be useful... everywhere, basically, even on the go?
- ...and while we're at it: Weren't virtual "Personae" the future to FaceTime and video calling anyways?
- Last but not least: Couldn't just make an adjustable "Magic stand" for my iPad?
- ...at a fraction of the price (unless you opt for the luxury "Pro Stand", that is. And the expensive screen cleaning cloth)?
- I'm sure Timmy wants to stick another A17 from his recycling bin into it that tabletop robot.
- Just to sell me yet another dedicated hardware device
- ...for a cool $599.
- Gotta keep functionality nicely segmented - and beware of product cannibalisation at all costs.
I can think of one. This robot is attached to a conference table. It's a telepresence robot, operated by a remote user wearing an Apple Vision headset. Around the table are people attending the meeting in person, and possibly other telepresence robots.
The robot can turn to face whoever is speaking, if the Vision wearer chooses, or it can look around at the other participants.
People at the meeting will see the Vision wearer's persona (face and hands) on the screen of the robot. The Vision wearer will of course see the conference room as if they are in the room. If they turn their head the telepresence robot turns with them, but they can look around with their eyes.
If there are multiple telepresence robots being used, the Vision wearers won't see the robots in the conference room. The robots will be digitally erased, and replaced with the personas of the other remote attendees.
It's said that Apple is also working on a robot that can move around from place to place. This would give another degree of freedom to a telepresence user. A supervisor could "walk around" a factory floor and interact with workers. Then the same supervisor could connect to a different telepresence robot in a different location. When the supervisor disconnects from a telepresence robot, it autonomously returns to a docking station, or it keeps "supervising", alerting the human supervisor if something needs their attention.
These are just my ideas. I don't know if Apple is working on or towards this.
The future is two choices:
Luxo Jr pushing pushing your coffee off the desk.
A cat pushing your coffee off the desk.
Oh what am I saying…the only future we have is…
When corporations run out of ideas they just robots, drones and guided missiles to blow up your neighborhoods and get themselves juicy reconstruction contracts.
Because people gives each other less and less attention, are motivated to that, so they turn into robots who will neve criticise them, never get angry....
"Hey robot turn on the F1 race"
"Now playing Big Booty Base"
"Now playing Big Booty Base"
I don't think anyone thinks Personas are THE future of video calling. They just allow someone who has a device strapped to their head to show their face and hands to other people on a video call. This robot would work well with people wearing Vision Pro devices.
It’s bad enough already when my dog gives me the sad eyes look when I leave the house without him. Now I have to be guilt shamed by an iPad lamp too?
Maybe the meeting can just be all robots, and the rest of us can go to the beach?
Oh my god, what blathering nonsense. Such a device is definitely NOT in Apple’s DNA.
But i suspect you’re here just to throw shade at anything Apple.
Try to comprehend the concept of R&D please. Many companies have research labs where engineers and industrial designers are given free rein to imagine and design whatever they can come up with. Bell Labs is a famous example for this. It’s where the transistor was first imagined. It’s where two Bell Labs engineers stumbled upon the Big Bang background radiation while trying to improve microwave receivers. 99% of this kind of research may never produce a product but the research often does get used in other areas.
But i suspect you’re here just to throw shade at anything Apple.
Think of how many kids won't have to experience their dad yelling at them for holding the flashlight wrong. Wow. what an invention!
Is that the thing they already stopped manufacturing?
More seriously, this is one of those topics that if this was a Samsung or Google announcement every single post would just be ridicule… post after post after post
It's call eye witness weather, because I look out the window and I witness the weather (with thanks to Les Nessman)