Key analyst says Apple making personal robots would be a ‘horror show’

Apple CEO Tim Cook with the only vision he’ll ever have
Apple is reportedly exploring the development of personal robots. The news comes just a few weeks after Apple shut down its electric car project. Longtime Apple bull Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said such a push into home robotics would be a “horror show.” 
Ian Krietzberg
 for TheStreet:
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Teams of engineers, according to the report, have been working on developing a small, personal robot that would follow people around their homes. The project is still in its early research phase.
People familiar with the project told Bloomberg that the personal robotics push could be the “next big thing” for the company, though the report added that Apple has yet to commit to the project.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told CNBC Thursday that, if the project comes to fruition, it would serve as nothing but a distraction from the key area that Ives thinks Apple ought to be focusing on: artificial intelligence.
“It would be a horror show if they actually spent money on robots,” Ives said. “They need to focus on AI.”
Ives added that Apple CEO Tim Cook’s “legacy is going to be AI. If they went after robots, that would be a black-eye moment for Apple.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Tim Cook’s legacy is going to be AI alright: missing it so badly that he had to license it from Google and other rivals.
This “personal robots” stuff is just some silly filler story fed to Gurman (Apple is surely working on all kinds of things that will never see the light of day) to paper over the company’s glaring lack of pretty much anything else positive so far this year. If not: