Pool cleaning robots all share one annoyance: when the battery dies, you fish them out by hand. MAMMOTION’s SPINO S1 Pro just made that obsolete with a robotic arm dock that hauls the robot onto the deck to recharge. The robotic arm trick The patent is called AutoShoreCharge. An articulated arm dock sits on the… Continue reading

The world’s first mass-produced robot vacuum with a five-axis arm shipped in March. By April Amazon had dropped the price from $2,599 to $1,299, it climbed onto Best Sellers, and r/smarthome was full of sock-picking videos. The hardware Robot vacuum, foldable five-axis manipulator. Arm folded takes ~10% of the body. Chassis is 7.98 cm —… Continue reading

Roborock’s 2026 flagship robot vacuum hit shelves in April, and r/Roborock has been at war with the Dreame X60 Max Ultra camp ever since. Vacuum Wars crowned it Best Robot Vacuum of 2026. TechRadar slotted it into their “two products we’re most excited about” pick. What’s in the box A wet-and-dry robot vacuum with one… Continue reading

Narwal pushed its 2026 flagship into US homes on April 20. Preorders opened April 13 at $1,099.99 on the US site and Amazon. The news worth caring about: a vision-language model now lives inside a floor-cleaning robot, not a research demo. The hardware It’s a vacuum-and-mop robot with dual RGB cameras, an onboard AI processor,… Continue reading

Ecovacs launched the DEEBOT X12 OmniCyclone in the US and Canada on April 14, 2026. It is a bagless robot vacuum-and-mop with 22,000Pa blast suction, 22 L/s airflow, and an onboard AI agent called AGENT YIKO 2.0. This isn’t a new hero robot — it’s the X12 chassis with a smarter stain pipeline and a… Continue reading