Rumors a couple of touchscreen-equipped good residence system from Apple have been circulating for years, periodically bolstered by leaked references in Apple’s software program updates. However a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman signifies that Apple’s ambitions would possibly lengthen past HomePods with screens hooked up.
Gurman claims that Apple is engaged on a “tabletop robotic” that “resembles an iPad mounted on a movable limb that may swivel and reposition itself to comply with customers in a room.” The system will even flip towards people who find themselves addressing it or towards individuals whose consideration it is attempting to get. Prototypes have used a 7-inch show related in dimension to an iPad mini, with a built-in digicam for FaceTime calls.
Apple is reportedly concentrating on a 2027 launch for some model of this robotic, though, as with all unannounced Apple product, it may come out earlier, later, or by no means. Gurman reported in January {that a} totally different good residence system—basically a HomePod with a display screen, with out the transferring robotic elements—was being deliberate for 2025, however has mentioned extra lately that Apple has bumped it to 2026. The robotic might be a follow-up to or a fancier, dearer model of that system, and it feels like each will run the identical software program.
