In a wave of new products and software characterized as an “artificial intelligence comeback,” Apple appears to be jumping into about a half-dozen new industries at once. There’s a “tabletop robot that serves as a virtual companion” and looks like “an iPad mounted on a movable limb that can swivel and reposition itself to follow users in a room,

Apple might have been late to the game with AI, but its incoming fleet of smart home robots could put the company back on top.

The center of the new lineup is a tabletop AI companion that has been described as an iPad on a movable robotic arm. It would be able to swivel to face the screen toward a user as they move around their home or office.