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Editorial independence is core to our work. Some links may earn us a commission, without influencing our opinions. I let the Mova V50 Ultra RVC clean my 1,600 sq. ft. 3BHK for 30 days with with minimal human intervention. It worked well, but watching it jump was quite funny.
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Polish hardware startup Jimmy Paputto has opened a modest crowdfunding campaign for the M.2 M HAT, a Hardware Attached on Top (HAT) add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 family of single-board computers that adds high-speed storage or PCI Express accelerators underneath the board rather than on top — keeping the
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VinSpace, a Vietnamese space startup that did not exist a year ago, has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its first home-built satellites into orbit in 2027. The company, a subsidiary of the sprawling Vingroup conglomerate, will hitch a ride on one of SpaceX’s Transporter rideshare missions, the
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Why does anyone care what Elon Musk thinks of Homer’s Odyssey, or Christopher Nolan’s? Musk is promising to use AI to generate a “historically accurate” version of the The Odyssey—turning epic poetry into atrocious slop—even as AI companies are literally destroying books to ingest them as
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Robot mowers are battery-powered, autonomous lawn mowers, making them a sustainable alternative to traditional gas-powered models. Much like robot vacuums, robot lawn mowers autonomously navigate around the ground, cutting grass as they go. They use sensors to navigate and stay within boundaries while mowing, as well as a companion control
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Every Product Manager knows the golden rule: Build for customer outcomes, not vanity metrics. Yet, in Edge AI product roadmaps, sub-millisecond latency has become the ultimate vanity metric. The Strategy Flaw: Solving a Metric, Not a User Need Engineering teams often push to minimize latency at all costs, assuming faster
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AI can now design a drug that works in humans. The hard part is that the world just decided to stop sharing. For roughly a hundred years, the way humanity found new medicines was, in the polite language of the industry, empirical. In less polite language: guessing at scale. The
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Show more (2 items) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. With robot lawn mowers, window washers, vacuum mops, and more, we're probably closer to the "future" we saw on TV than ever before. And while it's true the last decade
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For much of the semiconductor industry’s history, performance debates have centered on compute throughput and memory capacity. Faster processors, wider vectors, and larger caches have been the primary levers for system architects, often treating the movement of data between them as a secondary concern. Today, a different constraint is
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For years, 3D printing in construction has been viewed as an emerging technology with enormous potential. The industry celebrated demonstrations and prototype homes, but many questioned whether the technology could scale, satisfy building codes, and become a practical solution for residential development. Today, new trends are beginning to shape the
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I like drones and I like oddball inventions, so when I first heard about Zero Zero Robotics' Falcon Mini "bicopter" drone, I knew I had to try it out for myself. Well, I can now say that it is indeed a most interesting little aircraft … but when
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The “RC” in “RC car” stands for “radio control.” But everyone using the term is usually talking about direct radio control: the driver has a transmitter that sends radio commands directly to a receiver on the vehicle. But that isn’t a technological limitation these days. To prove it, Preston
