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At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, which starts this week, Roborock, a Chinese manufacturer of robot vacuums and other household cleaning equipment, unveiled a new robotic vacuum model with a foldable robotic arm. It has piqued my curiosity, though now I really want one.
The OmniGrip arm has five-axis movement and can lift objects under 300 grams, such as socks and dog toys. It marks the items it can pick up while cleaning the floor and then circles back to pick them up when it’s done. It even cleans up the areas under the items on the second pass – that’s attention to detail! The Saros 270 will go on sale later this year, but pricing is TBA.
— Matt Smith
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The biggest CES stories you missed
TVs, cars, headphones, weird.
The previews are over and CES 2025 is full steam ahead. The Engadget team is in Las Vegas, reporting on all the biggest tech launches. And all that is funny. We run a dedicated live blog with all the news from Vegas — follow along HERE.
And what we know is coming.
In addition to the usual tradeshow floor chaos, there will be keynotes by NVIDIA’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Delta CEO Ed Bastian and more. We also see Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X (Twitter), who will be interviewed by journalist Catherine Herridge in a keynote on January 7. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel will speak about the “future goals of the platform” in January 8. Those last two are probably the most interesting.
Where they belong.
Meta has killed off the majority of AI-generated profiles from Facebook and Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI characters prompted widespread outrage and ridicule from social media users. AI managed by Meta launched in September 2023, which launched alongside the company’s celebrity-branded AI chatbots (also discontinued). Meta hasn’t updated any of these profiles in months, and the pages seem to have gone largely unnoticed until this week. On Instagram, their profiles also show AI-generated posts that, say 404 Media Noticed, like the AI slop that fills the corners of the internet.
