Apple explores home robotics as next big thing

Tech titan: The Apple logo is displayed on a monitor outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. The firm is under growing pressure to find new sources of revenue. — Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES: 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.