What’s happened? Led by robotics Ph.D. student Paul Nadan, a team at Carnegie Mellon University has been developing the extraordinary Loris robot for several years. The latest version of the robot, ...

Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a reality, sort of. That’s courtesy of a little baby trend at IFA 2025 of robot vacuums slipping into something more climbable—a little caddy that ...

Stairs are the enemy of robot vacuums, and Eufy says it has a solution in its new “Marswalker” solution that gives your cleaning robot its own climbing robot. The Eufy Marswalker is the “world’s first ...

Robot vacuums that can climb stairs are now officially a thing if IFA 2025 is any indication. At the Berlin tech show, Eufy announced the MarsWalker, a dang stair-climbing mech suit that your robot ...

Dreame’s Cyber X robot vacuum is just a concept for now, but our PCMag colleagues saw it climb stairs while its sibling sorted items. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter ...

Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, analyst, product reviewer, and editor. He got his start in consumer tech, breaking Android news at Newsweek before going to PCMag, ...

Lemurs at a popular zoo have been given a new playground after a local theatre donated ropes once used to hoist scenery and lighting on stage. The Princess Theatre in Torquay has handed over a batch ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

Having nailed the laundry — including loading the washer and later folding everything up — the Figure 02 humanoid robot is now taking on the task of loading the dishwasher. And it seems to have nailed ...

Eufy has launched a new lineup of smart home devices, including the MarsWalker, a stair-climbing accessory for its robot vacuum. The collection also features a powerful new robot vacuum, a ...

The RoboVac Omni S2 teams up with a stair-climbing Marswalker attachment for whole-home cleaning—no matter how many floors you have. I saw it in action at IFA. I’m PCMag’s senior writer covering smart ...