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Save $210: If you were waiting for Prime Day to buy a new robot vacuum, today’s deal is worth a look. Amazon has dropped the Eufy Omni C20 robot vacuum and mop to just $340, its lowest price yet, giving you an early chance to save before the big
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It’s right there in the name: “Insta360” makes 360-degree cameras, ones that film every angle simultaneously so you can shoot first and frame later. It didn’t invent the idea, but Insta360 has become so synonymous with 360 cameras that it dominates the category with 73 percent of worldwide
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Save up to 46%: Shark Ninja’s early Prime Day deals on Amazon are already knocking the prices of kitchen appliances, robot vacuums and more down to tempting lows. Most of these offers are exclusive to Prime members, though, so if you don’t have a Prime membership yet, now’
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Local governments across China are competing to attract AI filmmakers with subsidised rent, living allowances and cheap computing power, Reuters reported on Friday. Zhu Zhili set up an AI film studio in Shenzhen two years ago. He told the agency that officials from big cities and small towns now call
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. He’s targeted a $20 trillion valuation—nearly four times the value of market leader Nvidia—on that premise. But his Tesla team was in Sparks, Nevada, on Thursday to
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SoftBank Group has invested $225 million into Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a Utah company that makes work vehicles drive themselves.The two have also set up a joint venture to build self-driving machines for big road, rail and airport jobs. SoftBank is funding the joint venture to cover several kinds
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Lindsey Elliott is big into bolts. At last year’s Bolting Symposium — the 13th annual — she said the highlight was playing “Bolting Bingo” against the many self-proclaimed “torque dorks” who were in the room. A former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, Elliott has spent years thinking about how to improve
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Another big overhaul to the game is now due in March. Bungie Bungie is having a busy week. After the game studio shared its broad strategy for keeping players happy with its two main franchises, the team has gone into a little more detail about the next phase for its
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If there is one thing robotics founders and investors agree on, it’s that the “ChatGPT moment” where a general-purpose robot can seamlessly adapt to any environment has not arrived. Opinions vary on whether the breakthrough is just around the corner or a decade away. Feather Robotics, a humanoid startup
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When it comes to personal robots, Mondo's Beni camera robot might be the perfect mix of cute and utility, with an emphasis on cute. As soon as I laid eyes on the pint-sized, two-wheeled bot, I was smitten. It darted quickly from place to place and, as Beni
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Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thursday. The number of robots at work in factories
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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewerVictoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Last night, I asked Blorbo — what I named my Muse AI agent — to help me
