When is the best time to run your robot vacuum?

Robot vacuums help ease the day-to-day need to clean, but at the wrong time, they can become another nuisance or a trip ...

Future of retail? Robot-run bodegas take over L.A.

The latest VenHub kiosk opened near LAX.
Circuit Digest

Google's Gemma 4 E2B Runs Locally on Robot Duck

It uses Parakeet for speech-to-text, Gemma 4 E2B for AI inference, and Kokoro for text-to-speech, enabling the duck to listen ...
Scientific American

A robot ran a half marathon faster than a human. Here’s why folding laundry is still harder

Last Sunday, at the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon, a red humanoid robot of a type named Lightning finished the course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds—faster than the human world record. Its long legs were ...
autoevolution

Robot Dog Spot Can Run With All Four Legs in the Air, Three Times Faster Than It Should

Dog-like robots the likes of the Boston Dynamics Spot have been around for so long now that they don't scare us as much as they used to. Yet, I can't help getting shivers down my spine every time I ...