The Roborock Saros Z70 robot vacuum cleans like a dream, but its mechanical arm, which promises to pick up small items like socks, still needs work.

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, ...

Scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington, for example, have built a soft exoskeleton that fastens onto the arm and, ...

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, which kicks off this week, Roborock, a Chinese manufacturer of robot vacuums and other household cleaning appliances, has unveiled a new robotic vacuum model with a foldable ...

A robot vacuum with an arm that picks up socks costs thousands now, but Roborock is working on a mass-market version that will cost "just hundreds," its president promises. Ajay has worked in tech ...

In my case, it hasn't yet taken these skills to the next level and followed through on its promise of putting shoes in the designated shoe space, or putting rubbish in its little designated bin thing ...

Elon Musk Neuralink enables patients to control robotic arms with brain implants in clinical trials at University of Miami Health System.

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If you are considering building your very own robotic arm you may be interested in a new high-performance DIY robot arm built by computer scientist Pavel Surynek. The Real Robot One or RR1 has 6 (6 ...

Engineezy] might have been watching a 3D printer move when inspiration struck: Why not build a robot arm to clean up his ...

But if – like me – you'd rather sit back and let a robot do the work, startup NexLawn is developing a robo-mower with a retractable arm capable of performing numerous garden tasks. The concept ...

I asked one of the creators of the arms, Professor Masahiko Inami, to tell me more. This is a small copy of this movement. So physical computing to avoid collision. Also, it's very intuitive. It's ...