The Information: Apple is developing a ~$1,000 tabletop robot with a 9-inch screen on a swivelling arm for 2027-28
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 3 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra187 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5126 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon217 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7156 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 126 days before it.
Key facts
- Form: ~9-inch display on a swivelling arm; ~$1,000; 2027 or 2028 (The Information, per Techmeme)
- Ars Technica (Nov 2) headline: FaceTime, switching lights on, and ‘yell at your cat’
What happened
Both articles were unreadable for us; written from headlines and summaries.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 2 press
Press
- The Information: Inside Apple’s slog to create its first robottheinformation.com, press
- Ars Technica: Apple’s $1,000 home robot (Nov 2)arstechnica.com, press
Changes
- Filed