Having ditched its electric car plans, Apple is reportedly making a foray into robotics, seeking a bold new product category. The company is delving into new markets and seeking avenues to generate additional revenue. Personal robotics is one area under investigation by the company. A Bloomberg report suggests that Apple engineers are exploring the possibility … Read more
Apple 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 … Read more
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who urged federal regulators to kill the Amazon-iRobot merger, finally got her wish this week when Amazon abandoned the deal, forcing the layoffs of 350 workers at the Massachusetts-based robotics company. The Massachusetts senator has been noticeably silent about the collapse of the iRobot acquisition and the loss of the jobs even … Read more
