Inside Apple’s Slog to Create Its First Robot
Apple’s new CEO John Ternus wants the company to get serious about robots, but judging by Apple’s plodding progress on the first one it hopes to sell—a device with a nine-inch screen that swivels around on an arm and resembles the Pixar lamp—he could face an uphill battle. Apple initially began working on the robot in 2019—code-naming it J595—and had modest ambitions for it, envisioning it mostly as a device for video calls. Its robotic arm was intended to allow it to...