ROBOTICS
You Can’t Always Get the Robot You Want, but Maybe You Can Get the One You Need
We have a dishwasher
I’ve been thinking more about the reports of Apple’s robotics lab. There have been jubilant articles where writers have seen this as a bright new future for Apple. I’ve been quite less enthusiastic, but maybe I was wrong.
I wasn’t wrong about the silly idea of a dishwashing robot. First off, we have mechanical dishwashers and they work well. Yes, washing by hand is less wasteful, but the engineering necessary for such a robot today would be a big challenge. The robot would have to be human sized, too, adding to its expense and power usage.
Most of us wouldn’t see a dishwashing robot as a must have. A dusting robot, yes, I would love that, but again, a robot too far for now.
There is a robot that might be an important product line for Apple. It’s also something Google, Microsoft, Samsung and plenty of others would see as a product they’d want to pursue, but Apple has a definite advantage here as we’ll see shortly.
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