Category: Learning Center: Robots In My Home

Robot technology continues to impress, and the latest development involves a robot pet called Anki Vector that can help you in various ways. Anki Vector has a shape of a

Robotic vacuums can make our lives easy by performing routine cleaning tasks that can be tiresome at times. Whiz Vacuum from SoftBank Corp., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is the latest device

There are different types of iRobot Roombas, and they are designed to make your life easier in many ways. Robotic vacuums use artificial intelligence to clean the floor, and they

Robot technology keeps on developing, and it now extends to pets and animals. While other types of robots help people make their lives easy, animal or pet robots are mainly

Don’t just lay new tiles, repaint the walls and put in new cabinetry. For a complete renovation, you should also consider a few smart upgrades to your home. Upgrade your

Smart products are pretty awesome. Things like smart thermostats, smart robot vacuums and smart lights make home life more convenient and can actually save you energy. But some companies are

How I wish robotic vacuum cleaners could clean themselves. They do all the cleaning on their own but leave the final dirty bit of cleaning them to us. If you

The biggest benefit of smart thermostats like Nest and ecobee is the amount of energy you get to save. In 2013, ecobee claimed that their US customers saved an average

Amazon Echo Show finally has competition in the form of the just released Google Home Hub. With the new smart display, Google has finally completed a smart speaker lineup that

Facebook just released the Portal and Portal+ smart speakers. Unlike the smart speakers we are used to, Facebook Portal is all about video calling. Most smart features like calendar and

Smart devices are marketed on the premise of convenience. But as you may have already experienced, these gadgets can sometimes be anything but. Most problems crop up when you have

A fully automated home sure is fun to live in. Just check out this series about building a smart home presented by Grant Imahara from MythBusters. But turning a standard

At some point, or more likely on the very first day you buy a smart speaker, your kid is also going to want to try it out. You need to

Any device or technology that makes life easier and safer for the elderly is very much welcome. In that spirit, I put together a list of the best smart gadgets

When designing smart cities, one of the main goals of experts is to improve energy efficiency. Data gleaned from sensors is used to improve energy management by predicting demand and

In 2014, Amazon released the first Echo smart speaker as they sought to expand their hardware beyond the Kindle e-reader. They pioneered a new category of devices and caught traditional

Tamagotchi is a digital pet that was first released in 1996. The pet starts out as an egg on a small screen which hatches into a pet. From then on,

Most robotic pool cleaners today don’t have a cable tangling issue. This is because they use swivel cables which don’t coil and twist on themselves as the robot cleans. But

Looking to buy a smart home speaker? Well, you’ll be spoilt for choice. There’s Echo from Amazon, Home from Google and HomePod from Apple (you can see our comparison of

Some robotic vacuum cleaners such as Roomba models seem to follow a well-calculated path on the floor. They move in a predictable pattern, smartly evading furniture and never going over