Mapping your home with an Ecovacs robot vacuum is easy, although there's a bit of a trick to getting it to work properly. Here's what you need to know.

A new system helps robots navigate homes they’ve never seen before with a little help from open-source AI models.

Image used with permission by copyright holder How to map a house with iRobot Roomba The good news is that adding this detailed mapping is easy — your robot does all the work.

Pick a spot for your dock with care, a location with plenty of room for your robot to maneuver so it can line up with the base correctly when it want to redock for a battery charge.

Robot vacuums with LiDAR — lasers that map your house and know which room is which — are consistently getting more affordable. Shop three mapping models from Shark, Wyze, and Dreametech on ...

If you have a busy home and lifestyle, and you’re wondering if a robot vacuum can clean in messy spaces, look no further ...

Cornell explains how it works: The robot begins by surveying the room with a Microsoft Kinect 3-D camera, originally made for video gaming but now being widely used by robotics researchers.

Robot vacuums use many methods to navigate and tackle the world. Some rely on lasers, others electronic eyes or even simple bumpers, and these tactics affect how well they clean. Our test room ...

The robots navigate using computer vision, but couldn’t map the rooms from scratch. They hired [matthewhallberg] to tackle this problem, and this robot is a preliminary result.