Apple’s Tabletop Robot: Bringing Emotion and Intelligence to the Smart Home
Apple is reportedly developing a new class of intelligent robots and devices — including a ‘tabletop robot’ — designed to bring its signature mix of design, privacy, and polish to the smart home.
Image: In-house artwork by LOCS Automation — AI-generated ‘Robot Vacuuming’. All rights reserved.
AI/robotics is moving fast — if you don’t stay in the loop, you’ll be behind. From new startups to quantum computers inching toward real‑world uses, these aren’t just nerdy headlines — they affect what tools you’ll use, how secure your data is, and how much leverage you can squeeze from automation in your business. -LOCS Automation
Image: Mark Zuckerberg (2025) (cropped) by Jeff Sainlar (Meta), via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for web.
Meta has announced plans to build an open software platform for robotics — a universal operating system designed to make it easier, faster, and cheaper for anyone to build intelligent machines.
Image: The IBM Building in blue by Daniel Ramirez, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Source: Flickr.
IBM and AMD announced a breakthrough that could change everything: real-time quantum error correction — a step that could finally make quantum computing stable enough for real-world use.
Image: In-house artwork by LOCS Automation — AI-generated ‘Robot Chef’. All rights reserved.
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have built a new AI tool that lets robots learn inside virtual worlds. It’s a breakthrough that could make training robots as easy as training chatbots.