Alongside a handful of new laptop concepts (and a range of real products too), Lenovo used MWC to announce a pair of AI-based productivity companion concepts. Both are standalone desk devices designed to boost productivity while providing office workers with a bit of artificial dystopic companionship.<\/p>\n
Lenovo describes its AI Workmate Concept as an \u201calways-on desk companion,\u201d but it looks like a tiny robotic arm on a swiveling base with a bulbous screen on the end displaying an expressive pair of eyes. It doesn\u2019t look as engaging as a human co-worker, but through local AI processing you can interact with the device as a smart assistant via voice commands and physical gestures.<\/p>\n
The Workmate Concept can also help with \u201cpractical business tasks.\u201d Below its screen is a camera that can be used to scan notes and documents to generate summaries, organize your ideas, or automatically turn them into presentations. When it\u2019s time to share with others, the Workmate Concept even incorporates a projector that can display documents on your desk or onto a nearby wall.<\/p>\n
Lenovo\u2019s AI Work Companion Concept takes a different approach to AI assistance. It looks like a bedside alarm clock with a large screen, but instead of waking you it leverages AI to \u201csync tasks and schedules from across the user\u2019s devices to generate a balanced daily plan.\u201d To help prevent burnout the Work Companion monitors screen time and suggests taking breaks throughout the day, along with playful interactions using animated faces, and end-of-week celebrations with reports of completed tasks.<\/p>\n
It also doubles as a dock, connecting a laptop to multiple displays over HDMI and providing plenty of USB ports to keep other devices charging while reducing desktop clutter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alongside a handful of new laptop concepts (and a range of real products too), Lenovo used MWC to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[182,25269,229,166,24588,140778,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-498907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-concepts","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-lenovo","13":"tag-mwc-2026","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}