CES promises the robot butler, but delivers better Roombas instead

SwitchBot’s Onero H1 is the only multi-purpose home robot with any firm release plan, and even that is just “soon.”

If you listen to the CES hype machine this year, you might think that robots are finally ready to take over your domestic duties. To some extent that’s true, but take note of the plural: there’s no single robot ready to take over all of your household chores yet, but an army of them just might.

You might have had one of these single-purpose robots in your home for years already, of course. Robot vacuum cleaners have long been capable of automating a single, specific task, and it’s no surprise that it’s the same companies behind those bots pushing home robots forward now.

Last CES, robot vacuums got arms, and 2026 is apparently the year of …

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