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Apple Plans AI-Driven Smart Home Robot, Display and Security Cameras

Apple’s prototypes cover a smart display; battery-powered security cameras; a tabletop robot; the Charismatic OS; a large-language model-powered Siri signaling its AI home hardware push.

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- Apple Smart Products Flagship Store on Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street in Shanghai, China on August 11, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Prototypes with codenames J490, J450 and J595 outline a simplified smart display slated for mid-2026, battery-powered security cameras and a Pixar Lamp-style tabletop robot targeted for 2027.
  • The tabletop robot prototype features a 7-inch iPad-like screen on a motorized arm designed to follow users, join conversations and serve as a virtual companion.
  • All three devices run Apple’s new Charismatic operating system, which uses facial recognition and multiuser profiles for personalized home controls and media.
  • Apple is rebuilding Siri through two parallel projects—Linwood using in-house large language models and Glenwood testing third-party AI such as Anthropic’s Claude—to enable more conversational, memory-capable assistance.
  • Chief executive Tim Cook has praised the unannounced pipeline internally as “amazing,” yet Apple declined to comment publicly and final AI model choices and timelines remain in flux.