A robot arm could not reach a bottle. It fetched a wooden spoon.
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Apple's AMP1 improvised tool use and succeeded in 104 of 108 physical trials, but successful tasks averaged 280 seconds.
A bottle was beyond the arm's reach. It fetched a wooden spoon, tipped the bottle toward itself and grabbed its cap. Apple's November 6 AMP1 paper describes this unprescribed maneuver.
AMP1 lets general-purpose AI inspect images, write control code and check results. It succeeded in 104 of 108 physical trials across twelve tasks and three robot instances.
APPSO's Chinese coverage appeared on 36Kr on November 12. The attraction is improvised problem-solving: a conversational model can turn nearby objects into tools.
It is slow. Successful tasks averaged 280 seconds, including 211 spent reasoning. These largely static experiments are not yet a fast household helper.
Source times: Apple paper, November 7, 2026, 02:59:34 Beijing / November 6, 1:59:34 PM EST; APPSO republished by 36Kr, November 12, 10:15 Beijing / November 11, 9:15 PM EST.
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