{"id":672982,"date":"2026-11-02T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672982\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:16:09","slug":"coming-in-2027-apples-1000-home-robot-for-facetime-and-switching-on-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672982\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming in 2027: Apple\u2019s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple\u2019s new CEO, John Ternus, is apparently pushing the tech company\u2019s development of household robots\u2014and the first to debut may be a home robot designed to autonomously roam around while supporting FaceTime calls and switching lights on whenever a person enters the room.<\/p>\n

People who worked on Apple\u2019s robotic projects told The Information<\/a> that the AI-driven home robot, code-named J595, could be named HomeView Ultra in line with Apple\u2019s new HomeView stationary smart display<\/a>. The company is reportedly aiming to launch the robotic product with a possible price tag of $1,000 or more by 2027, although development delays may push that back to 2028.<\/p>\n

The earliest prototypes of the home robot first came out in 2018 and received approval from former Apple CEO Tim Cook<\/a> to continue the project. The Information describes Apple\u2019s engineers as trying to give the robot more capabilities beyond being a \u201cfancy way to make FaceTime calls\u201d in order to justify a high price tag, even as the team has spent years refining the software and incorporating more AI technologies.<\/p>\n

However, the robot\u2019s few reported features seem underwhelming so far when compared with existing smart home devices and systems, or even a run-of-the-mill robot vacuum with a clearer use case for households. Is there a market for a smart home device costing more than $1,000 that moves around while hosting FaceTime calls, automatically handling room lights, and occasionally ordering the family cat to get off the dining table?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s new CEO, John Ternus, is apparently pushing the tech company\u2019s development of household robots\u2014and the first to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-672982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}