After three months of testing Roborock's ambitious Saros Z70, its headline-grabbing robotic arm is still just a proof of concept. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, ...

While not 100% hands-free, it's miles ahead of where robot vacuums were only a few years ago.

While 2024 was the year of self-cleaning robot vacuums, 2025 promises to be the year of robotic limbs. At CES 2025, Roborock had spectators doing double and triple takes when it unveiled a new ...

Robot arms do not come for free. The Saros Z70 is a very expensive robovac, and there are performance penalties too; the arm takes up space that could otherwise have been used for a bigger dustbin or ...

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I was an early adopter of the Roomba back in the early 2000s. It sucked, and not in the way it was supposed to suck: up dirt. The first Roomba barely picked up anything. It bumped into everything else ...

Robotics companies have found a new and creative way to get consumers to shell out for a new robot vacuum: equipping them with a robotic arm that can pick up after your lazy ass. Firms showcased a ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...