At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, which kicks off this week, Roborock, a Chinese manufacturer of robot vacuums and other household cleaning equipment, announced a new robot vacuum model with a foldable robot arm. I had been curious about it before, but now I really wanted it.
The Omnigrip arm has 5 axes of movement and can lift objects weighing less than 300 grams, such as socks or dog toys. Mark objects that can be picked up while cleaning the floor, and then circle back to pick them up when you’re done cleaning. The second pass also cleans the area under the object. This is attention to detail. The Saros 270 is expected to be available later this year, but pricing has not yet been determined.
— Matt Smith
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Previews are over and CES 2025 begins in earnest. The Engadget team is in Las Vegas reporting on all the big tech announcements. And the ridiculousness of it all. We have a dedicated live blog with all the news from Las Vegas. Follow us here.
And then comes what we already know.
In addition to the usual trade show chaos, there will also be keynote speeches from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Delta CEO Ed Bastian, and more. We also learned that X (Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino will be interviewed by journalist Katherine Herridge during her keynote on January 7th. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel will speak on “Future Goals for the Platform” on January 8th. The last two may be the most interesting.
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Meta has removed most of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook and Instagram after the AI characters sparked widespread outrage and ridicule from users on social media, the company confirmed. Meta-managed AI was launched in September 2023 and rolled out alongside the company’s celebrity-branded AI chatbot (also retired). Meta hasn’t updated these profiles in several months, and until this week, these pages appeared to have received little attention. On Instagram, their profiles also featured AI-generated posts, which, as 404 Media noted, were similar to the AI posts that are flooding the corners of the internet.
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