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Yeah, I'm not really sure what Apple's angle on this is. >> I get what an iPad does. I'm picturing
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it on a table connected to an arm so it can point in different directions. Why would I want it to be on a table
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connected to an arm? >> Do you remember a year and a half, maybe two years ago, Apple released that
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research paper on animatronic motion? They built a smart lamp and they did all of this testing to see what kind of
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moves does this robot lamp, it's sort of like a Pixar lamp. >> And what kind of moves does it need to
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make to make people like it? And they discovered that in order to make people like the lamp, actually these nonlinear
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sort of extra artsy dancy moves >> were really So I wonder if this is the culmination of all of that.
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>> The Honor Robot phone did that. It's a I guess it's a concept phone. It's not
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like a retail phone, but it it had this gimbal with a camera on top of it and it
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would also kind of give you these like little nods and shake its head at you and it would give you not fully
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anthropomorphic looks, but it would kind of have a face type of thing. It's still
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still kind of weird.