This robot vacuum cleaner has a robotic arm

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, which begins this week, Roborock, a Chinese manufacturer of robot vacuum cleaners and other home cleaning devices, has unveiled a new model of a robotic vacuum cleaner with a foldable robotic arm. It had already piqued my curiosity, but now i really want one.

The OmniGrip arm has five-axis movement and can lift objects under 300 grams, such as socks and dog toys. He marks the objects he can pick up while cleaning the floor and then turns back to pick them up when he’s done. Even the areas under the objects on his second pass – he is attentive to the details! The Saros 270 will go on sale later this year, but pricing is TBA.

– Matt Smith

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The biggest CES stories you missed

TVs, cars, headphones, oddities.

The previews are done and CES 2025 is full steam ahead. The Engadget team is in Las Vegas, covering all the biggest tech launches. And all the ridiculous. We have a dedicated live blog with all the news from Vegas – stay tuned here.

And what we already know is coming.

In addition to the usual trade show chaos, there will be keynotes from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Delta CEO Ed Bastian and more. We also saw Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X (Twitter), will be interviewed by journalist Catherine Herridge in a keynote on January 7. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel will talk about “future goals for the platform” on January 8. the last two might be the most interesting.

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Where they belong.

Meta has killed most of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook and Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI ​​characters prompted outrage and ridicule from users on social media. Meta-powered AI launched in September 2023, standing alongside the company’s (also discontinued) celebrity-branded AI chatbots. Meta hasn’t updated any of these profiles for months, and the pages seem to have been largely ignored until this week. On Instagram, their profiles also featured AI-generated posts that, like 404 Average noted, it looks a lot like the AI ​​slop that fills the corners of the internet.

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