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Title: Loona DeskMate hits $550K on Kickstarter: an iPhone-powered desk robot that watches your screen
KEYi Tech took a shortcut. Instead of cramming a SoC into another desktop bot, they built a 3-DOF motorized head with a MagSafe socket and let your iPhone be the brain, the face, and the camera. The base also doubles as a 165W GaN charger with 3× USB-C and 1× USB-A — even if you… Continue reading
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Claude Desktop Buddy turns an M5StickC into a physical approve button for Claude Code
Anthropic quietly shipped its first piece of maker hardware. 969 stars, 91 forks, no press release. The repo is a reference for a Tamagotchi-style desktop pet that talks to Claude Desktop and Claude Cowork over Bluetooth. The hardware An M5StickC Plus — ESP32, 135×240 color screen, IMU, two physical buttons, roughly the size of a… Continue reading
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Eric Migicovsky’s Pebble Index 01 is a $75 AI ring that runs 2 years on one hearing aid battery
Pebble is back, and the first product isn’t a watch. Index 01 is a 316 stainless steel smart ring with exactly one button and one mic — no screen, no touchpad, no wristband. Press, talk, release. That’s the whole interaction. Pre-orderers started getting units this month after a December 2025 reveal and a CES 2026… Continue reading
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Narwal Flow 2 Robot Vacuum ships April 20 with an on-device VLM and Alexa webhooks
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
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INMO GO3 packs hot-swappable batteries and 98-language translation into eyewear-weight smart glasses
INMO just pushed its next everyday AI smart glasses onto Kickstarter, and the hardware story is actually interesting. Normal eyewear weight, a magnetic battery that pops out and back in five seconds, a charging case holding two spares. That’s the answer most AI glasses dodge — “all-day battery” usually means tethered to a cable by… Continue reading
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Arduino VENTUNO Q takes aim at Jetson Orin Nano with 40 TOPS and an STM32 onboard
Arduino turned 21 and shipped its first real edge-AI SBC. The VENTUNO Q pairs a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 (40 TOPS NPU, 8-core Kryo, Adreno GPU) with an STM32H5 real-time MCU on one board, bridged over RPC. Under $300, Q2 2026 via Arduino Store, DigiKey, Mouser, Farnell. Hardware, not hype This is a single-board computer built… Continue reading
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Insta360 X6 fixes the X5’s stuttery 8K and ships an OSC API agents can drive
Insta360’s X-series flagship cleared FCC paperwork in early April. Late-month launch is locked. The headline: 8K/60fps in full 360°. The X5 capped at 8K/30fps, so every reframed clip stuttered. That ceiling is gone. What you’re getting 8K/60fps 360°, 5.7K/120fps single-lens, 10-bit color, PureVideo 2.0 HDR. Battery jumps to 2,600–3,000mAh — 100+ minutes of straight 8K… Continue reading
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Hesai EXT Color-Detecting Lidar: 4,320 channels, native color, and a 40% PDE Picasso chip
Hesai announced the EXT on April 18, ahead of the Beijing Auto Show. It’s the first automotive lidar that outputs 3D points with color baked in at the pixel level, in one scan. No more stitching lidar and camera frames downstream. What’s actually in the box The trick is the Picasso SPAD-SoC — Hesai calls… Continue reading
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Agility Robotics Digit adds a dead-lift skill: 65 lbs, zero hardware changes
Agility’s bipedal humanoid Digit just learned to dead-lift a 65-lb (29.5 kg) object with dynamic whole-body balance. No new actuators, no mechanical upgrades. The entire policy was trained in simulation, then dropped onto the real robot. Keep in mind — Digit is the only humanoid currently on a payroll, already moving totes at GXO Logistics… Continue reading
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DoorDash Dot: the first delivery robot cleared for sidewalks, bike lanes AND public roads
DoorDash Labs’ in-house bot Dot is running commercial orders across Tempe, Mesa and two other Phoenix suburbs. About 1/10 the size of a car, top speed 20 mph. Unlike Starship (sidewalks only) or Nuro (roads only), Dot switches freely between sidewalks, bike lanes and public streets. That’s the unlock — and why April’s CBS segment… Continue reading
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