The Midea Sweeping Robot features automatic dust collection and dual-view structured obstacle avoidance. The machine can sense and avoid obstacles in real-time using AI to accurately avoid up to ...

Robot vacuums and iPhones do not mix. There’s hope, though, as iRobot recently announced the j7+, a robot vacuum that can identify obstacles and avoid them with the help of a camera.

In the age of cheap sensors and microcontrollers, it’s easy to forget that there might be very simple mechanical solutions to a problem. [gzumwalt]’s 3D printed mechanical edge avoiding… ...

We’re all pretty well-acquainted with the obstacle avoiding robot. These little inventions use a proximity sensor to detect an object in front of the robot, then circumvent the object accordi… ...