Picture a seabird diving into a lake, chasing fish underwater, then bursting back into the sky without breaking stride. Engineers at MIT and EPFL just built a robot that swims and flies just like that, and it weighs less than a can of soda. No propellers, no legs, no folding tricks, it swims, dives, and […]
No Propellers, No Legs: This Robot Swims and Flies on One Set of Wings Read More
Jake Laser has spent his whole life watching his dad navigate a world that wasn’t built for wheelchairs. His father, a former marathon runner, has multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the spinal cord and has kept him in a wheelchair for more than a decade. Stairs, gravel paths, steep hills. These aren’t inconveniences.
Amazon’s gadget shelves keep moving fast, and this stretch of 2026 has leaned into AI-assisted audio, spatial computing, and biometric smart home security. Some picks below are brand new, like a pair of earbuds that just picked up a Guinness World Record for call clarity, while others are older releases getting a second wind from
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A pool robot that cleans the floor is useful, but it still lets leaves, pollen, bugs, and sunscreen film spend time on the surface first. A robot pool skimmer attacks the mess earlier, before it sinks and turns into a filter or vacuum problem. This is a narrower category than robotic pool cleaners. You’re not
Robot Pool Skimmers That Clear Leaves Before They Sink Read More
Robot vacuums made sense because floors get dirty every day. A window cleaning robot is harder to justify until you have tall panes, balcony glass, sunroom walls, or awkward exterior windows that turn cleaning into a ladder job. The ECOVACS WINBOT W2 PRO Omni is interesting because it tries to make that job portable, battery-powered,
ECOVACS WINBOT W2 PRO Is the Window Robot for People with Too Much Glass Read More
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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Qualcomm came to Computex with two announcements that sound like they belong to different companies. One is a chip platform for $300 Windows laptops. The other is a ready-made brain for humanoid and industrial robots. The thread connecting them is Qualcomm’s pitch that intelligence now has to run everywhere, from the cheapest laptop to a
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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
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Pool robots have come a long way. They scrub floors, climb walls, skim surfaces, and map your pool like a self-driving car navigates a highway. But every single one of them shares the same dirty secret: you still have to clean the cleaner. Every cycle ends the same way. You pull the robot out, pop
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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