Just when you thought you'd seen it all, ANYmal, the quadrupedal robot developed by ETH Zurich and commercialized by ANYbotics, is back to creep us out a bit, this time by conquering ladders. This ...

The novelty of a stair climbing robot vac has nothing to do with the trick of seeing it climb a step it is the silent assurance that one machine might finally make a house on multiple floors appear ...

A new wheeled robot is able to climb metal structures in a clever and unique way – it uses an extendible tape-measure limb. Descendants of the bot may one day find use inspecting or repairing things ...

Robot vacuums have spent years bumping politely into the base of staircases, forever exiled to a home’s ground floor. Dreame is trying to end that limitation with a machine that does not just roll, ...

UPDATE: Sep. 4, 2025, 1:00 p.m. EDT Since this story's original writing, Senior Shopping Reporter Leah Stodart tested the X50 Ultra at home. It ultimately did not make her list of the best robot ...