Inventors and researchers have been developing robots for almost 70 years. To date, all the machines they have built – whether for factories or elsewhere – have had one thing in common: they are ...

Robot vacuums have spent years bumping politely into the base of staircases, forever exiled to a home’s ground floor. Dreame ...

Roborock says the Rover will be able to climb almost any staircase, including traditional, curved, spiral, and carpeted staircases with bullnose fronts. Although the stairs I saw it demoed on were ...

The authors with their robot. From left to right: Alberto Comoretto, Harmannus A.H. Schomaker, Johannes T.B. Overvelde. A research team from AMOLF in Amsterdam created a soft robot that walks, hops, ...

From stair climbing robots to robovacs with built-in aromatherapy system, here are some of the best robot vacuums at CES 2026 ...

A team led by Northwestern Engineering researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers ...