An adhesive inspired by the foot pads of geckos allows a robot to scale both smooth and rough vertical surfaces.

Restaurants in Milton Keynes and Bristol are piloting the delivery robots.

Stairs are one of the last big challenges to be overcome by robot vacuums. Cleaning performance is getting better with each new model, for both vacuuming and mopping, and robots are better able to ...

At IFA 2025, we noticed that nearly every major robot vacuum maker is setting stakes in the stair-climbing frontier. Reading time 3 minutes Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a ...

Robot vacuums are a convenient way to keep your house clean without actually putting in much work, but they've all got one major problem—what if your house has multiple stories? At CES this year, I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robotic vacuum cleaners have become a common feature in homes, but most still stop at the foot of the stairs. A prototype unveiled ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — A towering 5,000 feet high, with more than 7,000 steps, Mount Tai, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, is known for turning legs to jelly for anyone game for scaling to the ...

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