Coding Robots for Kids: What $70, $150 and $200 Actually Buy You This Holiday
A coding robot can teach a child to plan step by step. Here is what each price tier adds, which age it suits, and what tends to disappoint.
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Robot Pets for an Aging Parent: What $125, $1,500 and $3,000 Actually Buy
A purring robot cat, a lap puppy with a heartbeat, a seal used in nursing homes, a dog that learns tricks. Here is what each price tier gets you.
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The Flying Camera That Follows You Is Now a Billion-Dollar Business. Here’s What Each Price Tier Buys
Palm-launched selfie drones follow you on a hike or a bike ride. What each price tier gets you, what they crash into, and what the FCC rules mean.
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China’s Humanoid Robots Are Job Hunting in Korea. Here’s What $80 to $25,000 Actually Buys You
A Seoul supermarket sells a walking humanoid for about $23,000. Here is what each price tier of robot really does, and why a humanoid won’t do your chores yet.
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What $100, $280 and $550 Actually Buy You in a Robot Vacuum
A cheap robot vacuum can clean well. The price tiers decide something else: how much of the work you still do yourself.
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This Robot Mops Your Floor With Hot Water. It Still Loses to a Rug.
The Narwal Freo 20 left no streaks on a tester’s hard floors. On area rugs it left grit and dog fur behind.
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Can you buy the robot that kicked a human across a cage?
California just told a startup to stop staging human-versus-robot cage fights. Here is what those humanoids are, and whether you can buy one.
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The robot vacuum rules changed. Here’s what you can still buy
A California robot vacuum just got the first federal exemption from the new ban on foreign-made robots. What that means for your next $500 purchase.
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The $1,000 Roomba Cleans Well and Still Needs Babysitting
The $999.99 Roomba Max 775 vacuums and mops well, but it still gets stuck and eats cables. Here is where the extra money helps, and where it does not.
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Constructing Robots with Low-Cost Components and High Flexibility
Most robotics enthusiasts begin with limited budgets but big ambitions. You can build functional, adaptable robots using affordable, widely available parts without sacrificing performance. This guide shows you how to select components, design flexible systems, and implement smart engineering choices that maximize capability while minimizing cost. The Economic Imperative of the Machine You build smarter…
