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Tennant X16 SWEEP: An 1,800-lb Autonomous Sweeper That Never Asks for a Break
Tennant, the 154-year-old cleaning equipment company, just shipped its first fully autonomous industrial sweeper — the X16 SWEEP. Unveiled at MODEX 2026 on April 7, this is an 816 kg robot that sweeps up to 105,000 sq ft per hour, runs six hours on lithium-ion batteries, and docks itself to charge when done. No human… Continue reading
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Orange Pi 6 Plus: A $199 Single-Board Computer With 45 TOPS and 64GB RAM
A Raspberry Pi competitor just showed up with laptop-class specs. 12 CPU cores, 45 TOPS of AI compute, up to 64GB LPDDR5, and dual NVMe SSD slots — on a single board for $199. 30 TOPS NPU on a 6nm SBC The Orange Pi 6 Plus runs the CIX P1 (CD8180) SoC — 12-core Armv9.2… Continue reading
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Ouster Stereolabs ZED X Nano: The Stereo Camera Built to Sit on a Robot’s Wrist
Every robot arm doing manipulation needs eyes at its fingertips — not on the ceiling, not on a tripod. Ouster just shipped exactly that. The ZED X Nano is a compact stereo vision camera module designed specifically for wrist-mount installation on robotic arms, and it’s 40% smaller than comparable solutions. What Makes It Worth Watching… Continue reading
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Boston Dynamics Spot + Gemini AIVI-Learning: A 32kg Robot Dog That Learns Your Factory Overnight
Google DeepMind just plugged Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 into Boston Dynamics’ Spot. As of April 8, every AIVI-Learning customer got the upgrade — no manual install, no downtime. A quadruped inspection robot that continuously learns your facility layout and flags anomalies on its own. What the Hardware Does Now Spot weighs 32.5 kg, runs 90… Continue reading
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Maximo Solar Robot Fleet Hits 100 MW — the First AI Robot Fleet to Build Grid-Scale Solar
Four robots, 100 megawatts, 18,000 homes powered. AES’s Maximo 3.0 autonomous solar installation robots just completed the world’s first grid-scale solar buildout by an AI-driven fleet — at the 1 GW+ Bellefield complex in Kern County, California. The Hardware Each Maximo unit is a purpose-built robot that uses cameras, sensors, and computer vision neural networks… Continue reading
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Locus Robotics Array: DHL’s New Warehouse Bot Cuts 90% of Picking Labor
DHL just took delivery of the first Locus Robotics Array units at its Columbus, Ohio facility. This isn’t another AMR that follows a worker around — it’s a full mobile manipulator that goes to the shelf, grabs the item, and hands it off to other robots. No human needed. What the Hardware Actually Does Locus… Continue reading
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Google x Warby Parker Android XR Glasses: $599 smart glasses with Gemini built in, launching Q3 2026
Google is putting $75–150 million behind Warby Parker to build Android XR smart glasses. Two versions: a camera-and-speaker AI pair with no display ($599 range), and a Display model with a transparent in-lens screen for navigation overlays and live translation ($1,399 range). Both run Gemini multimodal AI natively — ask it what you’re looking at,… Continue reading
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Withings Body Scan 2: A $600 Smart Scale That Tracks 60+ Biomarkers in 90 Seconds
A bathroom scale that does impedance cardiography. That’s the pitch for Withings Body Scan 2 — a $600 “longevity station” that turned heads at CES 2026 when a Tom’s Guide editor went barefoot on the show floor and got a full cardiovascular readout before his coffee got cold. The hardware: a glass platform with 8… Continue reading
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Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: $130 Gets You a Local LLM Box With 40 TOPS and Its Own 8GB RAM
$130. That’s what it costs to turn a Raspberry Pi 5 into an offline LLM machine — no cloud, no subscription, no data leaving your desk. 40 TOPS on a 19-Gram Board The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 is a PCIe add-on board with a Hailo-10H chip: 40 TOPS at INT4, 26 TOPS for vision,… Continue reading
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Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini: A $299 Desktop Humanoid That Runs 1.7M Hugging Face Models
Jensen Huang demoed it at CES 2026. Over 3,000 units sold in the first week. Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini is a 28cm, 1.5kg open-source desktop humanoid robot — and at $299 for the Lite version, it’s the cheapest way to get a physical AI dev kit on your desk. What You Actually Get Six degrees… Continue reading
