The robot in question is Roborock's shiny new Saros Z70, a new model we watched pick up socks for hours here at CES 2025 to demonstrate the next phase in mechanized cleaning.

1. A robot that will vacuum your floors, mop them or do both Mr. Struggle Gear may have promised he could vacuum, but he was created in the ‘70s. We can’t blame him for being behind the times.

PRE-ORDER NOW: On July 23, iRobot announced a new flagship robot vacuum and mop that finally comes with a self-cleaning station: the Roomba Combo 10 Max robot and AutoWash dock. It is available to ...

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The robot can do about 1,000 functions, including basic interaction with people, like talking, answering questions and making wisecracks. When my five-year-old rides with me on the bus, she adores it.

A squishy octopus-shaped machine less than 2 centimetres tall is making waves in the field of soft robotics. The ‘octobot’ described today in Nature 1 is the first self-contained robot made ...