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Mint
2 days ago
- Mint
Most advanced home robot vacuums in 2025 that you can't miss
Just last year, most home robots were limited to basic cleaning. Many robot vacuums struggled with obstacles, often getting stuck on thresholds or tangled in cords. But in 2025, new models are introducing features like object recognition, spill detection, and even robotic arms to pick up clutter. It's a clear step forward in how these machines handle everyday chores. Did you know that several brands have launched robots that don't just clean floors? Some can cook food, too. One can fold your laundry. And robot vacuum cleaners have learned new tricks. While none of these devices are perfect, they show how fast home automation is moving toward being genuinely useful instead of just interesting. The Roborock Saros Z70 is probably the clearest sign that robot vacuum cleaners are evolving. Watching it move around a living room is almost funny at first. It pauses, reaches out a tiny retractable arm, and picks up stray toys or cables before it starts cleaning. It still feels like something out of a sci-fi film, but it solves a very real problem. In the past, most vacuums would get stuck or leave areas untouched if you forgot to tidy up first. Released in early 2025 after its debut at CES, the Saros Z70 makes it possible to skip that prep step. Another on the list is the Dreame X50 Ultra Complete, which came to market in February 2025 after its CES debut. If you've ever seen a robot vacuum freeze at the edge of a rug or a doorway threshold, you know how quickly the novelty wears off. This model uses extendable legs to climb over raised edges so it can keep moving room to room. I watched it transition from a tile kitchen to a thick carpet without stopping. For families who don't want to babysit a vacuum, this feels like progress. The Eureka J15 Max Ultra does not look very different from earlier models, but it stands out in one important way. Unlike most robot vacuums that only detect obvious spills or ignore clear liquids altogether, this robot vacuum cleaner uses advanced infrared sensors that can spot even transparent water on the floor. When it senses a spill, it automatically adjusts its path instead of driving straight through. That small change makes it much better at avoiding the messy streaks many other vacuums still leave behind. It might sound like a minor feature, but if you've ever had to clean your floor after a robot dragged a spill across it, you know how helpful this can be. For example, if your pet dog knocks over the water bowl or your toddler spills juice on the floor, this robot can detect the liquid and avoid driving through it which in turn makes things easier and mess free. While cleaning robots get most of the attention, the Posha Kitchen Robot shows that automation is moving into the kitchen too. This home robot came out in early 2025 and looks like a big mixer, but it does much more. You load the ingredients, pick a recipe, and it chops, stirs, and cooks by itself. It's a new technology you can bring into your home to make everyday meals easier, not just something created to show off. It can weigh ingredients, adjust cooking time and temperature with sensors, suggest recipes to match your taste, keep food warm, clean parts of itself, and connect to an app so you can control it from your phone. While Tesla's Optimus isn't something you can buy today, its public demos show how quickly robotics is advancing beyond single-purpose machines. Watching a humanoid robot fold laundry and carry boxes makes it clear that more general-purpose helpers could move from prototypes to real homes sooner than many people expect. Even if Optimus remains out of reach for a few more years, it offers a glimpse of what the next wave of home robots might look like. These home robots are not perfect yet, but 2025 shows they can really help with everyday chores. From cleaning floors to cooking meals, home robots are becoming useful parts of our homes. It's a sign that in the future, robots could make life a lot easier for everyone.
CNET
5 days ago
- CNET
Why I Recommend Lenovo's Gaming Tablet Over the iPad Mini
8.0 / 10 SCORE Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 $450 at Lenovo Pros Nice-looking display with a 165Hz refresh rate Works with mobile controllers Nice bundled accessories Smooth gaming performance Cons No microSD slot No fingerprint scanner Behind on Android updates Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 8/10 CNET Score $450 at Lenovo The world of Android tablets sometimes feels like a crapshoot, but every now and then, a seven or 11 appears. There are the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10s of the world, which offer the best Android tablet experiences, but also fantastic tablets like the OnePlus Pad 3 and great budget options, too, such as the Lenovo Tab Plus. Another Lenovo, the Legion Tab Gen 3 was a surprise to see at this year's CES. The 8.8-inch gaming-focused tablet is slightly larger than the iPad Mini but in the same ballpark on price at around $450. For the money, you get strong performance, solid build quality and an overall excellent set of specs and features. After spending several weeks with one, I can say it's a pretty awesome little tablet, and it's won me over enough to earn an Editors' Choice award. Jason Cockerham/CNET Fantastic hardware Let me start with the size. At 8.8 inches diagonal, it's larger than the best large phones, but still smaller than most tablets made for entertainment. You might not expect it to be great for gaming, but the more I used it, the more I realized it's nearly the perfect size. Larger tablets get too heavy to hold for long sessions, and unless you've got a kickstand case, propping them up can be a hassle. Being larger than a phone makes it easier on your eyes, though. Plus, some of the best mobile controllers, like the Razer Kishi Ultra, even fit the Legion Tab for an incredible mobile gaming experience. Lenovo also packed an impressive display into the Legion Tab. It's an 8.8-inch, 2.5K (2,560x1,600 pixels) touchscreen with a 165Hz max refresh rate and covers 98% of the DCI-P3 color reference, the iPad Mini has an 8.3-inch display with lower resolution, in a tablet that's actually a bit larger -- and don't get me started on those massive bezels. The Legion Tab has blissfully thin bezels. The speakers on the Legion Tab are also impressive. Its stereo audio is bolstered by Dolby Atmos support, and sounds fantastic. They're not as good as the speakers on the OnePlus Pad 3 or anywhere near the iPad Pro's, but they're impressive for a tablet this size. Jason Cockerham/CNET The Legion Tab Gen 3 is also a performance powerhouse. Its Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor is still an incredibly strong mobile chipset. I never once experienced any slowdowns or stutters during my time with it. Every game I played ran beautifully, even at the highest available settings. There's only one configuration of the Legion Tab available, which comes with 12GB of DDR5X RAM and 256GB of storage. The lack of expandable memory or an option for more storage might be a deal breaker for some, especially as game downloads get larger and larger. Annoyingly, Lenovo released a Legion Tab Gen 4 exclusively in China that does include a microSD card slot, and the company confirmed to me that it's not leaving China anytime soon. Keeping the lights on is a 6,550-milliampere-hour battery that recharges at 65 watts, and there's a fast charger included in the box. There are two USB-C ports on the Legion Tab that both support fast charging. The port on the right side (or bottom when holding in portrait) is USB 2.0 and only for charging. The bottom port (or left side when holding in portrait) is USB 3.2 and supports up to 10Gbps transfer speeds and display out so you can connect it to an external monitor for better gaming or desktop use. This is more useful than you might think because Lenovo has an excellent desktop mode for its tablets. When you connect an external keyboard or mouse, the tablet turns into a pseudo-desktop experience, similar to Samsung DeX. I've used this often on both the Tab Plus and the Legion Tab, and while it won't replace my laptop anytime soon, it can be useful. Jason Cockerham/CNET On the back, you'll find two cameras: a 13-megapixel main shooter and a 2-megapixel macro lens -- yes, somehow still a thing in 2025. Around front, there's an 8-megapixel selfie shooter. While I never expect much from tablet cameras -- aside from the macro one -- these actually aren't terrible. They aren't going to replace a premium phone camera, but they're better than I expected. The selfie camera is good enough for a quick video chat or group gaming session on the go, and the back camera is alright for snapshots and video clips if you don't have anything else handy. One of the most pleasant surprises was what Lenovo included in the Legion Tab's box: a protective case with holes to help keep it cool during long gaming sessions, a tempered glass screen protector with an easy-install kit and an Apple-like folding cover that doubles as a stand. The cover is a bit flimsy, and I kept taking it off to use the tablet, but it's really nice to see good accessories included, boosting its already good value. The biggest downside of the Legion Tab's otherwise fantastic hardware is the lack of a fingerprint sensor. Yes, you can use Face Unlock for the tablet itself, but that doesn't work for password managers or anywhere else in the software where you'd use biometric security. Incorporating a fingerprint scanner in the power button is pretty common these days, so I'm disappointed it's not here -- especially at $449. Jason Cockerham/CNET Fast software with slow updates On the software side, it's running Android 14, and sadly, there's a fair bit of bloatware and ads out of the box. The software itself is pretty smooth, especially on the 165Hz screen, but several included games and app recommendation tools are just ads. I understand the need to make money off devices like these; the ads and preinstalled apps help lower prices, but it's nonetheless disappointing to see on a small tablet that's $550 when not on sale. Also, the fact that it launched with Android 14 in 2025 (Android 15 was released in June 2024) and is still on Android 14 halfway through the year doesn't bode well for long-term software support. Lenovo has never been great about this, though the Legion Tab is promised three OS updates and four years of security patches. Just don't expect them to arrive quickly -- Android 16 is on the way, and it's still stuck on Android 14 with no timeline for getting Android 15. Josh Goldman/CNET Best way to game on the go Overall, I'm smitten with the Legion Tab Gen 3. This is the perfect mobile device for gaming. It's small enough to fit comfortably in my backpack and my favorite mobile controller, but powerful enough to play anything I want. The screen is gorgeous, and the battery gives me plenty of playtime. Plus, there are some useful accessories bundled in the box. I do wish there were more storage options, and Lenovo absolutely needs to be better about its software updates, especially when it wants $549 for the tablet. However, it's regularly discounted for as low as $449, so if you can wait for a sale, do it. Still, there really isn't a better option for mobile Android gaming tablets right now.
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Business Standard
7 days ago
- Business Standard
HDMI 2.2 announced with support for up to 16K resolution at 60fps: Specs
HDMI Forum has released the HDMI 2.2 specifications to manufacturers for them to adopt to the new specifications. Labelled as the Ultra96, the HDMI 2.2 specs-based cables will support resolutions up to 16K at 60 frames-per-second (fps). Unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, HDMI 2.2 and the first Ultra96 HDMI Cables, with bandwidth capabilities boosted to up to 96Gbps, could be available later this year, as reported by The Verge. 'Ultra96 is a feature name that manufacturers are encouraged to use to indicate a product supports a maximum of 64Gbps, 80Gbps or 96Gbps bandwidth in compliance with the HDMI 2.2 Specification,' said HDMI Forum. HDMI 2.2: What is it So far, the current ultra high speed HDMI cable is only applicable for system configurations supporting up to 48Gbps maximum bandwidth. With the onset of HDMI 2.2, the new Ultra96 HDMI cable will be applicable for system configurations supporting up to 96Gbps maximum. These cables will be able to support resolutions 4K at 480Hz, 8K at 240Hz, 10K at 120Hz, and even 16K at 60Hz. Additionally, it will also be able to handle uncompressed video formats with 10-bit and 12-bit colour at 8K at 60Hz and 4K at 240Hz. Notably, even 8K content is rare presently, let alone 10K or 16K. Which clearly means that the Ultra96 cables have not been created to address immediate demands rather it has been made to support the needs of the future. HDMI 2.1 version has existed since 2017, yet many hardware manufacturers haven't fully utilised its capabilities. The improved bandwidth and resolution support in HDMI 2.2 only aim to better future-proof the standard in the years ahead. HDMI 2.2 will also support the Latency Indication Protocol (LIP), first announced in January. It enhances the audio-video sync improvements of HDMI 2.1, especially in setups where signals pass through devices like soundbars or AV receivers before reaching a display.
GSM Arena
7 days ago
- GSM Arena
HDMI 2.2 spec released with 96Gbps bandwidth and 16K support
After announcing it at CES earlier this year, HDMI Forum has finally released the latest HDMI 2.2 spec for device and accessory manufacturers. As with previous major HDMI revisions, the major update with version 2.2 is the increase in bandwidth. HDMI 2.2 supports up to 96Gbps bandwidth, twice that of HDMI 2.1 that came before it. However, since this is HDMI Forum we are talking about, and some amount of muddying of water is expected, HDMI 2.2 will also apply to devices supporting 64Gbps, 80Gbps, and the full 96Gbps bandwidth. As usual, there is a big attention-grabbing resolution number to go with this new spec. This time, we are getting support for up to 16K resolution at 60Hz or 12K resolution at 120Hz using display stream compression or chroma subsampling. But while it's easy to roll your eyes at these figures, a big bandwidth increase like this also brings with it improvements at more practical resolutions. For example, with the recent launch of 4K 240Hz monitors, you can achieve this resolution and refresh rate combination at 10-bit or 12-bit color without having to use display stream compression or chroma subsampling, something that wasn't possible before. Similarly, you can achieve true 8K 60Hz 4:4:4 at 10-bit or 12-bit without compression. Other features in the new spec include Latency Indication Protocol (LIP), dynamic HDR support, source-based tone mapping (SBTM), enhanced eARC, enhanced gaming features, including VRR, ALLM, and QFT, Quick Media Switching (QMS), and HDMI cable power. To go along with the new spec, HDMI Forum has also announced a new standard for the cables that will be required to achieve this bandwidth. The previous Ultra High Speed HDMI standard used for HDMI 2.1 transmission will no longer be adequate, and you will have to look for the new Ultra96 HDMI branding on cables to ensure compatibility. As with Ultra High Speed HDMI, HDMI Forum will be testing and certifying cables that meet the Ultra96 HDMI spec and such cables will have the Ultra96 Certified Cable label with hologram and QR code that customers can scan to verify. Source
Man of Many
25-06-2025
- Man of Many
Roborock's Saros Z70: A Robotic Vacuum so Advanced it's Straight Out of Science Fiction
By Rob Edwards - Sponsored Published: 25 June 2025 Share Copy Link Readtime: 4 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. If you thought vacuum technology had evolved just about as far as it could possibly go, well, Roborock would like to have a word with you. Earlier this year, the ambitious brand's CES showing featured the Saros Z70, a new model that has completely reset our expectations when it comes to premium robotic vacuum cleaners. Now, Roborock's latest has landed down under, and Aussie adopters expecting to take home a high-level robotic vacuum will soon discover the Saros Z70 is so much more than that. Saros Z70 | Image: Roborock A One-Armed Home Helper To describe the Saros Z70 as 'cutting edge' feels like an understatement. This thing is more reminiscent of a droid out of a science fiction movie than it is a vacuum cleaner. There are a number of features that set it apart, but the most obvious is the Omnigrip, a foldable five-axis mechanical arm, and the first to be mass-produced for the vacuum industry. The Omnigrip is a remarkable thing indeed. It empowers the Saros Z70 to lift obstructions weighing under 300 grams—currently programmed for socks, slippers/sandals, tissues, and towels, with more to follow in future software updates—but more than that, your new robotic assistant's programming means it can actually recognise these items and relocate them to their designated spots. Did you leave some socks in the living room? The Saros Z70 will move them toward your closet. Did you kick off your sandals in a hurry? The Saros Z70 will take them towards the welcome rug by your front door. This feature also means the Saros Z70 can do a more thorough cleaning job. Taking an approach that breaks up the task into sessions, the robotic vacuum will detect and mark objects it can lift during its first cleaning session, thanks to its dual cameras — one on the mechanical arm and the other on the front of the chassis. Then, during its second session, it moves the objects out of the way, opening access to previously blocked areas and enabling it to get the job done right. Saros Z70 | Image: Roborock Gentle, Smart, and Sleek While the Saros Z70 comes with 108 objects already pre-programmed so it can recognise and avoid them—thanks to its advanced Starsight Autonomous System 2.0, which also offers improved accuracy in recognising unfolded cables, irregular walls, and furniture—you can help to make it even smarter still. Taking advantage of this customisable on-board AI-driven technology, you'll be able to define and label further objects in the accompanying app, taking your vacuum's intelligence to the next level. Said app also means you can take manual control of the mechanical arm and chassis, providing interactivity (and the potential for a little fun and mischief) for you, your friends, and family. Plus, this manual mode enables you to guide the Saros Z70 to pick up pretty much anything under 300 grams. For those who might question the wisdom of trusting their household objects to the Saros Z70's mechanical grasp, you can take comfort knowing it boasts a gentle-grip design, enabling it to securely hold objects without causing any damage. It's the perfect balance of strength and care. Naturally, the Saros Z70 also provides further peace of mind, thanks to its emergency button and child lock. Saros Z70 | Image: Roborock Before we go on too long, we should make it clear that none of this extraordinary innovation comes at the expense of the Saros Z70's capacity for cleaning or its svelte design. The robotic vacuum boasts an astonishing 22000 Hyperforce suction power, along with an Ultra design measuring just 7.98 cm high, meaning it can easily access more of your home. It also packs a Dual Anti-Tangle System across both its main and side brushes, enabling it to handle long hair without getting itself tied in knots. What could be more perfect for pet-friendly households? Finally, the Saros Z70 also comes with the advanced Multifunctional Dock 4.0. This provides auto-detachable mops that it adds to or removes from the vacuum, depending on the job, as well as a 2.5-hour fast charge functionality, 80° hot water mop washing and dock self-cleaning, auto dust emptying, and a host of other handy features. It's the perfect home base for your incredible new vacuum. With the Saros Z70, Roborock has again shown that it would be foolish to underestimate the brand's tireless drive and overwhelming capacity for innovation. More than a robotic vacuum, the Saros Z70 is the cleaning companion you've always wanted.
