{"id":68318,"date":"2025-08-14T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68318\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:08:10","slug":"apples-ai-enabled-ipad-on-a-robot-arm-may-interrupt-your-conversations-in-a-positive-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68318\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s AI-Enabled iPad on a Robot Arm May Interrupt Your Conversations (In a Positive Way)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, Apple\u2019s AI-enhanced Siri rollout turned into a massive SNAFU<\/a> that gave the Cupertino tech giant a rare black eye<\/a>, but the company won\u2019t quit on Apple Intelligence just yet<\/a>. The latest reports suggest Apple will try and sell consumers on at-home robots set to arrive in the next two years, along with a version of its AI assistant that sports a face and \u201cpersonality.\u201d If the rumors are true, the company won\u2019t stuff AI into a ball-shaped bot that users hopefully won\u2019t trip over, but will put it on your tabletop in the form of a robot arm with a screen.<\/a> That, and more Apple smart home products, are allegedly set to launch within the next two years.<\/p>\n

This robot, which my tech-addled brain can\u2019t stop referring to as \u201cApple Intelligence on a stick,\u201d will reportedly be able to interact with users on a more personal basis. We\u2019ve heard about this supposed home robotics project before, but Bloomberg\u2019s star Apple leaker Mark Gurman wrote<\/a> on Wednesday that Apple wants to give the bot the ability to interject itself into conversations as if it were an active participant. The iPad mini<\/a>-sized screen at the end of an extending robot arm could show a cartoonish face that would be the most personified version of Siri yet. Apple has reportedly tested two versions of Siri\u2019s virtual identity. One is an animated version of the classic Finder logo on Mac. Another looks like a Memoji. I desperately hope Apple opts for the former.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re trying to picture this AI in action, think less of the Samantha AI from the 2013 movie Her and imagine the Luxo Jr. mascot from Pixar Studios. This AI could be playful, awkward, and maybe even a little bashful. Apple showcased how this AI would work<\/a> in a research paper it published back in January. The prototype AI framework, which Apple called ELEGNT, can follow commands and users\u2019 movements, but it may interact in more subtle ways that make it seem far more personable. Instead of outright telling you the weather forecast on command, the bot may look out the window, look back, and then say it\u2019s sunny with a chance of rain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As fun as it sounds, what matters more is if it\u2019s as functional as selecting an app on a screen. Home AI like Amazon\u2019s Alexa+<\/a> has rolled out slowly over the past few months. Early reviews<\/a> of Amazon\u2019s at-home chatbot have noted that it can hold a conversation, but it\u2019s still not good enough to recognize specific context for your queries. Apple reportedly still has designs on humanoid robots<\/a>, or at least something that will roll on wheels like TCL\u2019s AiMe<\/a> or Samsung\u2019s Ballie<\/a>. Those are still just prototypes, but we\u2019ll more likely see more Apple smart home products, like a doorbell camera and other home security devices.<\/p>\n

Gurman\u2019s slate of anonymous sources suggests Apple Intelligence on a stick may arrive in 2027, though we\u2019ll get a more subdued version that\u2019s closer to a smart speaker with a display before that. That device sounds like a HomePod<\/a> version of an Echo Spot<\/a> or Google Nest Hub<\/a>, though this device should be wall-mountable. It won\u2019t have the conversational Siri, but it will have access to note-taking, video calls, and smart home controls through all the usual standby apps like Calendar, FaceTime, and Apple Music. All this could run in a new operating system that is currently codenamed Charismatic.<\/p>\n

None of this push for robotics will matter if Apple can\u2019t get its house in order, and that starts with Apple Intelligence and Siri. Apple is reportedly still planning to launch what it\u2019s dubbed internally as \u201cLLM Siri,\u201d according to Gurman. That voice assistant may be available by spring next year, though we\u2019ve been burned before on dates for Apple\u2019s previous AI rollouts. This new version may feature yet another visual redesign to help us forget about the first time Apple tried giving Siri an AI makeover. Whether Apple opts for in-house models or outside LLMs like Anthropic\u2019s Claude<\/a>, we\u2019ll first have to deal with AI infecting our smartphones before we ever wrestle with any AI-enabled robotic arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sure, Apple\u2019s AI-enhanced Siri rollout turned into a massive SNAFU that gave the Cupertino tech giant a rare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,1572,31108,276,277,49,48,22911,61],"class_list":["post-68318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-apple-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-robots","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}