Apple’s next nebulous idea: smart home robots (www.theverge.com)
from VITecNet@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 00:40
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paddirn@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 01:03 next collapse

They can call it the AppleJack, and the inevitable sex toy that gets made out of it will be dubbed the AppleJackOff.

BombOmOm@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 03:27 collapse

I guess the farm really isn’t bringing in the money anymore.

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For those who don’t get it, her name is Apple Jack and she works on an apple farm

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 01:25 next collapse

They really lost the plot at this point.

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Jun 03:23 next collapse

If I had a robot, I would want it to stay securely bolted to the shop floor. I certainly wouldn’t buy one from any big tech company.

BombOmOm@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 03:32 next collapse

I want one that can do annoying manual labor tasks. ‘Remove all the paint from the concrete porch’ would be a nice command.

Though, with how well AIs are going lately, I could see it deciding to destroy the front door instead if I were to entrust it with a power tool.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Jun 07:17 collapse

One can design a visual language in which such a robot would present to the user what exactly it’s going to do.

Then a user can say a command, and the resulting action would be displayed, waiting for confirmation by, say, pressing a button.

Wanderer@lemm.ee on 11 Jun 09:02 collapse
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 10 Jun 07:13 next collapse

“Door into Summer” comes to mind.

That means no. Until they start selling useful robots with a few simple MCs inside and sufficient documentation. No “AI”, no telemetry, no nice GUI, nothing like that.

slimarev92@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 07:53 next collapse

I always thought Apple should make appliances. I say let them try.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 12:19 next collapse

All of those robots are easily defeated by a flight of stairs.

phoneymouse@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 14:54 collapse

The drone ones can probably handle it

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 10 Jun 19:51 collapse

Yeah, don’t mind the flying drones using LLM snapshots to navigate and identify obstacles, like random people.

Murdoc@sh.itjust.works on 10 Jun 18:28 collapse

Apple making robots, what could go wrong? (Looks up phone number for Tom Selleck)