Computerworld February 21, 2025
Both Apple and Meta are supposedly getting into the humanoid robot racket. Here’s why that’s very unlikely.
Tech press-landi and the tech blogosphere were abuzz last week with news that both Apple, the company that makes the iPhone, and Meta, the company that makes everybody on Facebook confront a daily flood of horrible AI-generated slop, are making full-size, humanoid robots.
The trouble is, they’re not doing that. Here’s what’s really happening.
Don’t call Apple’s robot the “iRobot”
TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote on the X social network on Feb. 12 that “Apple is exploring both humanoid and non-humanoid robots for its future smart home ecosystem.”
According to Kuo, these products are in the proof-of-concept stage and will enter...
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