Apple might be working on something unexpectedly ambitious, according to a report from Ashlee Vance at Bloomberg Businessweek.
Vance reports that Apple poached “robotics whiz” John Morrell from Yale last year. No one knows what he’s doing at Apple.
Morrell was director of the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design at Yale. He was trying to breathe some life into Yale’s tech scene, which Vance suggests is relatively moribund. “My roboticist friends think he must be working on something pretty fantastic to have quit the Yale post,” says Vance.
Previously, Morell was a leading engineer at Segway, the two-wheel electric scooter. At Apple, he’s in the Mac software group, according to Vance’s sources. But, even Vance doesn’t seem to think that makes much sense.
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