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Apple Explores Home Robotics as Potential ‘Next Big Thing’ After Car Fizzles
Apple Inc. has teams investigating a push into personal robotics, a field with the potential to become one of the company’s ever-shifting “next big things,” according to people familiar with the situation.
Apple Inc. opened its eighth store in Shanghai, adding to its largest retail network after the US at a time iPhone sales in China are slowing.Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Updated on Apple Inc. has teams investigating a push into personal robotics, a field with the potential to become one of the company’s ever-shifting “next big things,” according to people familiar with the situation. Engineers at Apple have been exploring a mobile robot that can follow users around their homes, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the skunk-works project is private.
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