Robots don’t fail only because a hand misses a cup. They fail because the task around that cup keeps changing. Google DeepMind’s answer is to split the problem, and Gemini Robotics ER 2 is the half that keeps track of the larger job. ER 2 isn’t a robot you can buy, and it isn’t the […]
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Laundry is where home robotics stops being a novelty and starts asking for a place in the family budget. Weave Robotics has opened pre-orders for Isaac 1, a mobile home robot that the company says can collect clothes, fold them, put them away, make beds, and reset the small messes that gather through a normal
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This isn’t a robot you buy and keep. Tau staff bring the machine over, and the whole thing runs as a service appointment. The terms don’t hedge it either: “A person is controlling it.” Price: $30 for one hour Book a clean That’s a different product than the one most home robot coverage promises. Tau
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A humanoid robot making coffee is easy to film. Keeping a café moving through the dull work around that moment is the harder job. KEENON’s recent robot-café demonstration makes its strongest case not by presenting one all-purpose machine, but by putting a humanoid alongside dedicated delivery and cleaning robots. At LEAP East 2026, KEENON showed
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I just spent four days inside Xpeng’s world leading up to the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, and I’m still trying to process what I saw. Cars threading through Beijing chaos like a taxi driver who’s been on the job for thirty years. Humanoid robots in active development. A flying car with 7,000 orders on the
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January’s CES floor was thick with home robots. Booths lined up humanoids, rolling AI projectors, and dual-armed butlers, and every press release headline read some variant of “available in 2026.” Six months later, almost none of them sit in actual living rooms. Three units clear the bar as of May 2026. 1X NEO is open
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Most years, you leave Barcelona with a notebook full of announcements and a mental list of things you’ll forget by April. Incremental updates dressed up as revolutions. Concept phones that will never ship. Folding screens nobody asked for, made slightly less fragile than the ones from the year before. This year felt different. A few
Best of MWC 2026: The Tech That Actually Stopped Us in Barcelona Read More
Every major appliance expo promises the future, but most of what you see on the show floor stays there. AWE 2026 felt different. The Appliance & Electronics World Expo ran March 13 through 15 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, pulling in over 1,200 brands across 170,000 square meters. The theme was “Smart AI,
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ARTICLE – The night before MWC officially opened, AGIBOT brought a robot to the Palacio Real de Pedralbes in Barcelona. The crowd at Showstoppers had come to see new gadgets. What they got was a 131 centimeter machine performing a martial arts sequence, then hip hop choreography, then dropping into a full split on the
AGIBOT’s X2 did a full split at MWC 2026 and you can already rent one Read More