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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An emotional AI companion robot is a hardware device built around presence and emotional interaction rather than productivity, using sensors and conversational AI to read tone, touch, and context for a specific kind of user. Every few months a new robot promises to read your face, remember your bad day, and meet you where you
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Some weeks the gadget cycle is all incremental upgrades and color refreshes. This wasn’t one of them. The past few days brought a wide-foldable phone that breaks a six-year design pattern, Dyson’s first product cheap enough to call an impulse buy, a pool robot that empties its own filter, and a retro handheld that looks
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Bosch just lifted the curtain on something most kitchen designers have been quietly waiting for. A robot vacuum and mop that doesn’t sit in the corner of your living room or peek out from under a console. This one lives inside the kitchen abinet, drives itself out through a hidden door in the baseboard, cleans
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Talking to AI still carries a faint whiff of weirdness. You ask a question into the void, something invisible answers back, and the whole exchange feels like filing a support ticket with a very fast typist. Samsung Display looked at that problem and decided the fix wasn’t better language models. It was a face. The
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TCL didn’t bring the flashiest phone or the thinnest tablet to MWC 2026. It brought a small robot, part ai desktop pet and part study buddy, that sits on a desk and tells bedtime stories. The company unveiled Tbot, a conceptual AI desktop companion designed to work alongside the TCL MOVETIME MT48 kids smartwatch, and
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ARTICLE – Most people don’t think of their house as a tech product. It’s where you sleep, where you eat, where you argue about what to watch on a Tuesday night. But somewhere between the smart speaker on the counter and the doorbell that texts you when a squirrel walks by, your home quietly became
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ARTICLE – The pet camera economy runs on guilt. You open an app, watch your dog stare at the door for eight hours, and wonder if surveillance actually helps or just quantifies the problem. Monitoring doesn’t solve loneliness, it documents it. Pet owners have spent years buying devices that let them check in, dispense treats
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CES 2026 NEWS – Robot Vacuums Aren’t Home Robots, but the LG CLOiD might be. We have been calling robot vacuums “home robots” for over a decade. The label stuck because it sounded futuristic, even though these machines do exactly one thing: clean floors. They can’t fold laundry, load a dishwasher, or hand you a
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REVIEW – Have you ever wanted a dog that isn’t messy, doesn’t shed, only does what you tell it to, won’t chew on the furniture, and kind of obeys your voice commands? Well, the SunFounder PiDog Robot Dog Kit for Raspberry Pi is for you. The SunFounder PiDog is another great robot kit in dog
REVIEW – The maintenance of a pool and its equipment is the key to avoiding costly and unnecessary expenses. I’m now a year into owning my first pool and still learning, but I can say that robot vacuums can absolutely lighten the lift. Aiper recently sent their newest Seagull SE to review and there’s a
REVIEW – If you have read much of my stuff on this website, you know that I’m pretty disappointed in “the future.” I mean, the closest thing I can get to Rosie the maid in “The Jetsons” is a robot vacuum, and dental work still involves drills like it’s 1921 instead of 2021. Recently, though,
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REVIEW – Back in the 60’s there was a cartoon called The Jetsons, which gave us a look into the all the conveniences of life that would come with a futuristic space age. Perhaps the best character in this show was Rosie, the family’s robotic maid and housekeeper. As a kid, I looked forward to
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REVIEW – When a gadget becomes popular we get offered a lot of those gadgets for review. After a while, it can become a little boring to review yet another one of those gadgets. Robot vacuums are in that category for me right now. Don’t get me wrong, I love using them in my home,
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REVIEW – Robotic vacuums are popular these days, but I honestly never had any interest in them. I thought that my home would be to difficult for a robotic vacuum to clean. Then I read about the newest S series vac from Roborock, the S4. The S4 was engineered specifically to clean complicated homes like
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REVIEW – Getting started with home automation can start as simply as adding a remote-controlled light bulb. But if you have the budget for it, my suggestion for getting started with home automation is to invest in a robot vacuum cleaner. Once you get a robo vac, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without
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Today Roborock, makers of popular robotic vacuums launched the latest vacuum in its top-of-the-line S series, the Roborock S4. The S4 joins Roborock’s highly successful S5 Max and S6 models. The S4 has tons of features but comes in at the lowest price point in the S series ($399.99). The S4’s features: Precision laser navigation A revamped
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REVIEW – Robo-vacs have become increasingly popular in the past year, and we’ve had the opportunity to review several of them here at The Gadgeteer. The latest one we’ve evaluated is the ECOVACS DEEBOT 600. Let’s see how it did. Gadget on! What is it? The ECOVACS DEEBOT 600 is an automated, app-enabled, multi-surface, robotic
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REVIEW – For years my wife and I have looked with envy at the Roomba robot vacuums. We have always looked at them as a luxury item though and have never pulled the trigger to get one. So when competing products started coming out and the prices started coming down, we started looking again. At
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REVIEW – I remember the days when many toys were wooden and any electronic toys were a rare and amazing gift. These days, almost every toy is technology based and many are interactive. I love the way my kids interact with interactive devices designed for kids, and I was so happy when I got a
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