From Sci-Fi Dreams to Dusty Floors: The Engineering Reality of the iRobot Roomba j7+

Published on Sept. 1, 2025, 5:27 p.m.

For more than half a century, we’ve been promised a future of automated domestic bliss. It was a vision televised in vibrant co…

The Soul of a New Machine: Inside the Ambitious, Flawed Genius of the iRobot Roomba j7+

Published on Sept. 1, 2025, 4:54 p.m.

There exists a shared, quiet dream in the modern home: the fantasy of outsourcing our chores to a silent, efficient automaton. …

The Ghost in the Machine: Why Your Smart Robot Vacuum Isn't as Smart as You Think

Published on Sept. 1, 2025, 4:35 p.m.

There’s a ghost that haunts the modern smart home. It’s not a spectral apparition but a digital one, a phantom of unrealized po…

The Bot in the Corner: How One Robot Vacuum Explains the Broken Promise of Our Smart Home Future

Published on Sept. 1, 2025, 4:24 p.m.

It’s a vision many of us have bought into, a quiet promise whispered by every smart device we welcome into our homes: a future …

The Ghost in the Machine: How a Self-Driving Car's Eye Ended Up in Your Vacuum Cleaner

Published on June 26, 2025, 7:02 p.m.

It’s 2005. In the blistering heat of the Mojave Desert, a strange breed of vehicle sputters across the sand. These are the pion…

From Blind Luck to Digital Sight: The Sensory Evolution of Robot Vacuums

Published on June 26, 2025, 3:53 p.m.

From Blind Luck to Digital Sight: The Sensory Evolution of Robot Vacuums It wasn't so long ago that the idea of an autonomous …