This palm-sized robot dog has a Nokia battery and a customizable LEGO-compatible back
Petoi has been shrinking Boston Dynamics down to desk size for almost a decade now. Dr. Rongzhong Li started the company in his dorm lab…
Robots
This Robotic Pavilion Concept Would Change Its Layout Only When Empty
A public pavilion can give people somewhere to gather, but returning to it usually means finding the same spaces and following the same paths. Self-Assembling…
A $599 Robot Dog That Fits on Your Desk and Works Like LEGO Technic
A robot dog usually arrives with a trick and a lot of wiring. Q8botOne takes the opposite approach, putting its core electronics onto a central…
Wing’s Walmart drones are coming to Denver and Seattle — and they won’t drop your parcels in the pool
Lindsey Austen of Richmond, Texas, ordered cat food, light bulbs, and shoe insoles, then watched a drone hover over her backyard, open its hatch, and…
MagSafe Drone Lets You Attach An iPhone For Perfect Hands-free Selfies And Videos
Google’s Add Me is one of the stranger things a phone has ever done. Introduced on the Pixel 9, it takes a photo of your…
Exoskeletons Always Ignored Your Knees, but Halo Doesn’t
Ask anyone who hikes regularly where their body actually gives out, and it’s rarely the climb up. It’s the way down. Your quads and hips…
Smart Glasses, Robot Dogs, AI Tamagotchis, and Desk-Sized Supercomputers: How IFA 2026 Redefined Robots
The creator economy reshaped who makes content, and then quietly reshaped what tools are worth building. When millions of people are shooting, editing, scanning, and…
Finally, Learning Robotics Doesn’t Cost a Five-Figure Lab
For most of the last decade, if you wanted to actually build and train a robot, you needed one of three things: a university lab,…
Meet the Robot Dog Built to Climb Your Stairs With Your Packages
I’ve lost count of how many times a delivery robot has shown up in a video, rolled confidently across a parking lot, and then just…
Watti Is the Robotic Desk Lamp That Wants to Know What You’re Doing Before You Ask for Light
The desk lamp has been, essentially, a solved problem since Edison. A light source, a shade to direct it, and a switch. Every design evolution…
A Robot Dog That Wants You to Go Outside? Lassie Might.
Dogs have a way of making you do things you wouldn’t otherwise do. Get out of bed on a rainy morning. Walk around the block…
Narwal’s 31,000Pa robot vacuum has a flattened roller mop and a dock that looks like decor
There are two things robot vacuum brands rarely linger on for long, probably because neither one looks especially glamorous in a product keynote. The first…
Unitree launches humanoid robot that’s faster than Usain Bolt, and spot jumps higher than any athlete
If you also think a robot Olympics is on the verge of happening anytime soon. You could just be right. If and when that happens,…
A Goat-Headed Robot With a Chainsaw Is Actually a Great Idea
The first time I saw Threehalves, I did a double take. Seven feet tall, four-legged, with a horned goat head and glowing eyes, it looks…
Humanoid Robots Don’t Fit in Store Aisles, So Robbyant Fixed That
Service robots have been making steady progress in controlled environments, but deploying them in real commercial spaces has always come down to one stubborn problem:…
Insta360’s foldable drone patent targets DJI Neo 2 at sub-250g
Insta360 built its reputation on cameras that see in every direction at once. It’s literally in their name. The X series made 360-degree capture accessible;…