there is many rumours about Apple’s Inovating on Table top robot.while this year robotics researchers team at Apple leaked one of its most futuristic product.
Apple demonstrates Elegant, a “expressive and effective movement design for the non-anthropomorphic robot,” in a blog post that MacRumors saw. The company’s tabletop robot can be summed up as follows:
In human connection, nonverbal cues including posture, gestures, and gaze are crucial for communicating interior feelings, both consciously and unconsciously. In order for robots and humans to interact more naturally, robot movement design should also incorporate expressive characteristics like intention, focus, and emotions in addition to more conventional functional factors like task completion, time efficiency, and spatial constraints.
The design and production of a lamp-like robot that investigates the interaction between expressive and functional goals in movement design is presented in this study. We provide a set of interaction scenario storyboards, define expressive action primitives, and document the hardware design process using a research-through-design methodology. The robot behavior sequences are implemented in various function- and social-oriented tasks using a framework we offer which combines both expressive and functional utilities during movement generation. Our results from a user study that examined expression-driven and function-driven movements in six different task scenarios show that expression-driven movements greatly improve user engagement and the perception of robot attributes. This effect is most noticeable in jobs that need social interaction.
It is projected that Apple will release their mysterious tabletop robot around 2026 or 2027. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg previously stated that the gadget would have a sizable, iPad-style screen fixed on a “thin robotic arm.” It functions as a “smart home command center,” a FaceTime call hub, and a home security monitoring tool in addition to tilting and rotating 360 degrees.
With an emphasis on Siri and Apple Intelligence, this gadget would be able to identify various voices in the house and, when a user spoke to it, would face them in the room using a feature similar to Center Stage
Given that this iPad-like robotic home appliance would cost about $1,000, Apple is targeting the high-end market. Although additional specifics are unknown, the first Apple house robot currently runs a modified version of iPadOS. The business has been working on a mobile robot, but Gurman stated in April of last year that the robotic smart display was apparently considerably further advanced in development. Nevertheless, the company’s roadmap has frequently seen the addition and removal of these goods