Researchers in China have built a household robot that can spot objects on floors and gently collect them with soft, inflatable fingers, though only in controlled laboratory settings so far.

This arm is hidden beneath a door on the top of the Saros Z70 and extends out when it detects an item that’s in the way of cleaning. A bin is included in the box to give the robot arm a place to ...

In theory it’s the closest we’ve come to an actual robotic assistant, and I feel the arm makes this vacuum cooler than it usually would be (don’t look at me like that). But as excited as I was, in ...

According to Roborock, the robot arm is disabled by default as a safety measure. To enable it, you need to activate it in the app and physically press a button on the Z70 before it starts working.

Thanks to 3D printing and inexpensive controllers, a robot arm doesn’t need to break the bank anymore. Case in point? [Build Some Stuff] did a good-looking compact arm with servos for under $60.