Samsung first introduced the world to Ballie at CES 2020. The cute round robot made another appearance at CES in 2024, and now the company is saying that the home-assistant robot could be rolling into customer’s homes in 2025. According to Samsung, “Ballie acts as a personal home assistant, autonomously driving around the home to […]
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Aerospace company Xpeng Aero HT unveiled its “modular flying car” at CES 2025. The Land Aircraft Carrier is a large van-like vehicle with an eVTOL in the back. The company is hoping to deliver the first flying cars to customers in 2026. If that sounds a bit far-fetched to you, you’re not alone. Source
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TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec took us along for a ride in the latest Zoox robotaxi at CES 2025. The autonomous vehicle company has been testing these electric autonomous taxis on the public streets of Las Vegas for more than a year, inviting the media and some employees to take test rides. Zoox expects to open up
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Mi-Mo is a customizable general-purpose AI robot from Tokyo-based robotics company Jizai, Inc. Unveiled at CES 2025, the goal is for Mi-Mo to one day be an in-home assistant. But for now, the “living” Pixar lamp can move around and hold up a short conversation. The team at Jizai is planning on releasing a developer
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ICON Technologies Inc., which builds homes using 3D printing, is laying off 114 people, according to a WARN letter filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the news to TechCrunch, providing a statement that ICON had “recently made a difficult decision to re-align” its team and team size “to focus
CES 2025 has been a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor had a watershed moment, as images of the top players flanked NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang during his Monday keynote. Of these, Agility’s Digit also showed up alongside a miniature conveyer belt at a closed access NVIDIA booth. It was a nice return
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Like anything in life, the secret to becoming Steph Curry or Sabrina Ionescu is practice, practice, and more practice. You practice when it’s too hot, too cold, you’re tired, or you’re sick. Finding a willing one-on-one partner through all of that is, however, another question entirely. The good news is that later this year, you
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Roughly two and a half years after their patent battle began, Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have settled the dispute on reasonably amicable terms. The robotics firms on Wednesday issued a joint release announcing the end of the dispute. “We are pleased to resolve this dispute on mutually advantageous terms,” Boston Dynamics Chief Legal Officer
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Yukai Engineering is no stranger to cute, but somewhat odd, little robots. And at CES 2025, they revealed Mirumi, a robot that’s made to “delight bystanders” by turning its head to greet them. The robot has a few different modes to choose from, between a comfort mode in which it looks around after not being
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At CES 2025, Roborock unveiled a feature that it hopes could help its vacuums dethrone the Roomba: an arm. This is Saros Z70, the autonomous vacuum that comes equipped with a five-axis arm that unfolds from the top of the vacuum to pick up obstacles using onboard cameras and sensors. The S70 starts shipping on
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