The tech news stories under the radar in 2025

After a particularly spirited online conversation about whether tech media should still be covering funding rounds, I found myself reflecting on what we actually do — day in, day out — at Tech.eu. Whe…

Here’s how LG’s new upcoming robot could make your home life easier

LG will debut its CLOiD home robot at CES 2026, highlighting its push toward intelligent home automation and a future where robots reduce daily household work.
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Video Friday: Holiday Robot Helpers Send Season’s Greetings
Video Friday: Holiday Robot Helpers Send Season’s Greetings

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 20…

The Top 6 Robotics Stories of 2025
The Top 6 Robotics Stories of 2025

Usually, I start off these annual highlights posts by saying that it was the best year ever for robotics. But this year, I’m not so sure. At the end of 2024, it really seemed like AI and humanoid robots were poised to make a transformative amount of p…

Trump administration’s ban on foreign-made drones starts this week. You can say goodbye to new DJI models.

It’s the latest development in an evolving war between Chinese and American consumer tech products.

‘It felt so wrong’: Colin Angle on iRobot, the FTC, and the Amazon deal that never was

The iRobot founder opens up about the 18-month regulatory process that he says doomed the Roomba maker — and what it means for American innovation.

From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt? 

The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy.  Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a…

StretchSense raises $2.3M to drive global expansion of XR training gloves

StretchSense, a wearable technologycompany that develops data capture gloves, has secured $2.3 million in fundingled by PXN Ventures, with support from Scottish Enterprise. The company has nowraised n…

Pickle Robot adds Tesla veteran as first CFO

Jeff Evanson recently joined Pickle Robot as the company’s first CFO as the startup has allegedly expanded its partnership with UPS.