We were doing our daily harvest of YouTube for fresh hacks when we stumbled on a video that eventually led us to this conversion of a 1980s Armatron robot to steam power. The video in question was of ...

As the first consumer robot model capable of tidying, vacuuming and mopping, the Saros Z70 promises to solve one of my ...

Building a simple robot arm is a lot more straightforward than it used to be. If you have a laser cutter, or a bit of cash and don’t mind waiting for postage, there are inexpensive kits like the MeArm ...

In brief: Robotic vacuums can sometimes be like curious toddlers. Leave a sock or towel lying around, and they'll gleefully find it, tangling themselves in the mess. If you're tired of having your ...

Chinese consumer goods firm Roborock introduced an advanced robot vacuum cleaner featuring a mechanical robotic arm called OmniGrip, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 in Las Vegas. Named the ...

There are folks who get genuine pleasure from tending a colorful garden. But if – like me – you'd rather sit back and let a ...

When Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft in 1975, they set a goal to put "a computer on every desk in every home." Now some forty years later, a Chinese start-up is hoping to do the same with ...

We’re not quite at “The Jetsons” level of technology, where every home has a robot maid or butler — but robots can already make themselves useful around the house, from cleaning the windows to mowing ...

Dreame’s Cyber X robot vacuum is just a concept for now, but our PCMag colleagues saw it climb stairs while its sibling ...

Robots like The Iron Giant or 2001’s HAL 9000 get all the attention when you’re talking artificial life, but the truth is, there are robots everywhere. Sure, the smart ones and cute ones are often ...