Jannik Grothusen and Kaspar Janssen trained a pair of $120 robot arms to clean a spill. Using GPT-4o, the robots were programmed in four days, designing a visual language model for ...

Two researchers at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich have harnessed the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model to teach cheap robot arms to clean up spills. It's a clever demonstration of how AI ...

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 ...

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, ...

Peter Chen, CEO of the robot software company Covariant, sits in front of a chatbot interface resembling the one used to communicate with ChatGPT. “Show me the tote in front of you,” he types. In ...

When I first started testing robot vacuums over a decade ago, my takeaway was that the idea held promise, but wasn't worth the price and the hassle just yet. At the time, robot vacuums weren't much ...

As CES 2025 kicks off, Roborock unveils its latest innovations. Among them is the new Roborock Saros Z70, the first robotic home assistant with an arm (the company calls it the OmniGrip). Roborock ...