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, ...

Finally, a robot vacuum that can climb stairs.

Roborock and Dreame showed off two approaches to getting over one of the robot vacuum’s biggest hurdles.

Whether this stair-climbing—and cleaning!—robot is the first true whole-home robot vacuum remains to be seen.

From stair climbing robots to robovacs with built-in aromatherapy system, here are some of the best robot vacuums at CES 2026 ...

Robotic vacuum cleaners have become a common feature in homes, but most still stop at the foot of the stairs. A prototype unveiled at the CES technology show aims to change that by giving a household ...

Roborock, a Chinese robotic vacuum cleaner brand, unveiled a concept device with two legs that can climb stairs in people’s homes, a flashy example of efforts to sell ordinary consumers on the idea of ...

Although a number of wheeled robots can traverse uneven terrain, their body doesn't stay level as they do so, making them unsuitable for many tasks. That's where the KATR comes in, as it uses ...

Robots don’t stroll, at least not in science fiction movies. They more often than not lumber or, in the case of C-3PO, shuffle. But thanks to scientists at the University of Arizona, you might one day ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined a dog and a car? Well, you might get something like W1, a wheeled quadruped robot that can switch between walking and rolling modes depending ...