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Resourceful robot can wheel up trees to cut down coconuts

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The Robot Vacuum’s Next Humble Trick: Climbing Stairs

At IFA 2025, we noticed that nearly every major robot vacuum maker is setting stakes in the stair-climbing frontier.

I've seen two game-changing stair-climbing robot vacs in action – there's one clear winner in the race to the top

One of the biggest problems with robot vacuums is their inability to move unassisted between floors. Even today's best robot vacuums are only able to clean one story of your home at once – which puts ...
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CES 2025: Dreame's X50 Ultra is not the robot vacuum that can climb stairs

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 ...
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Self-growing robot copies the behaviour of climbing plants

Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have developed a growing robot, named FiloBot, that responds to gravity and light by autonomously adopting some of the behaviors of climbing ...