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Apple’s smart home robot could actually be a lamp.

If you were hoping its rumored home robotics foray might bring us a Rosey the Robot, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has bad news. In a post on X, he said sources indicate Apple is focused on developing a bot we’ll bond with over creating a humanoid assistant, as “...supply chain checks indicate Apple cares more about how users build perception with robots than their physical appearance.”

The good news is that means we might get that adorable lamp-droid Apple after all.

A GIF of a video showing a lady dancing next to a robot lamp that is dancing they are both in a kitchen.
Last month, Apple’s Machine Learning Research site posted a video of work it’s doing with anthropomorphic robots. And now we all want dancing lamp.
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