SAM Might Be the Most Human Thing Samsung Could Finally Built
Most conversations about aging and technology eventually circle back to the same frustrating gap: the tools we build for older people rarely feel like they…
Robots
Weave’s $8,000 Isaac 1 Is the Home Robot That Dresses Like Furniture
Most robots designed for the home look like they escaped from a manufacturing plant. They’re shiny, angular, and cold, and the moment you put one…
DJI built a parachute into their drones to protect the hardware… and people’s heads
Drones fall. Sensors fail, signals drop, batteries die at inconvenient moments, and until now the consequences of that failure were left largely to chance. Obstacle…
The Air Purifier That Rolls Toward Smoke Before It Fills the Room
Air purifiers have quietly become household staples, tucked into corners and set to auto, doing their work without much acknowledgment. The fundamental assumption behind every…
Harvard Students Built a Lamp That Taught a Robot to Make Art
There are moments in design when your first thought isn’t “how does it work” but “how does it feel.” Hikarigami is one of those objects….
XiaoBu Wants to Be the Most Personal Thing on Your Desk
We’ve reached a point where our desks have become a form of personal expression. The plant you chose, the pen holder you 3D-printed, the specific…
Forget Humanoids: Eno Might Be the Robot We Actually Need
The robot race has been moving in one direction for a while now: two legs, a head, and a shape that clearly spent considerable time…
KEENON Humanoid Pours Drinks at GCS 2026, 100,000 Others Run Hotels
The robotics industry has a curious reputation problem. The machines getting the most attention, walking bipeds that do backflips, aren’t the ones driving real business…
Every Robot You’ll Ever Own Has 3 Separate Brains: Nvidia VP explains how AI Thinks at BEYOND Expo 2026
A robot on a factory floor may look self-contained, but Deepu Talla says its intelligence is distributed across a hidden chain of machines. At BEYOND…
FutureWave’s Furny home robot talks to you by moving, not by talking
Most home robots ask a lot from the room they inhabit. They arrive with screens, speakers, wake words, and personalities, all requiring acknowledgment from whoever…
Argus Just Showed Up With 20 Eyes, 20 Legs, and No Rules
The moment you see Argus rolling across a college lawn, you feel a kind of awe that’s equal parts scientific admiration and mild existential discomfort….
Michigan Built a $4,000 Robot You Can Rebuild from Scratch
The Ship of Theseus is one of philosophy’s most enduring thought experiments: if you replace every plank of a ship, one by one, is it…
The Robots That Built Seoul’s Robot Museum
The Seoul Robot & AI Museum is the definitive parametric architecture reference of 2026, and it’s easy to understand why the design world keeps returning…
Unitree’s transforming mecha robot is the closest thing yet to owning a real Transformer
Flying solo tied to a jetpack is a dream we have been savoring for quite some time now. And since movies like the Transformers, the…
MIT Turned 12 Labubu Heads Into a Robot and It’s Watching You
Nobody told MIT grad students to build a rolling sphere covered in twelve Labubu faces. They did it anyway, and now the rest of us…
The Roomba Guy Just Built a Robot Pet You Might Actually Love
If you’ve ever watched your Roomba bump helplessly into a chair leg for the third time and thought, “I deserve better from my robots,” you’re…