It sounds like a concept, but Roborock's legged Saros Rover was fully operational at CES—and it climbed stairs without missing a spot.

Roborock and Dreame showed off two approaches to getting over one of the robot vacuum’s biggest hurdles.

At IFA 2025, we noticed that nearly every major robot vacuum maker is setting stakes in the stair-climbing frontier. Reading time 3 minutes Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a ...

The Ascender robot vacuum and mop cleaner tackles stairs, edges and corners for marathon cleaning sessions. Are you tired of lugging heavy vacuums up and down the stairs? Do you wish a robot could ...

While robot vacuums are getting fancier and more sophisticated (there’s now one that can climb stairs!), there are lots of great budget bots you can get for just a couple of hundred bucks that will ...

I watched Roborock's Saros Rover successfully dodge obstacles, climb stairs, clean the stairs and even dance. It blew me away at CES 2026. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robotic vacuum cleaners have become a common feature in homes, but most still stop at the foot of the stairs. A prototype unveiled ...

Robot vacuum companies are once again out in full force at CES 2026, giving their devices a new set of intriguing — and sometimes unsettling — capabilities. This year, Chinese appliance maker Dreame ...

Roborock, a Chinese smart home appliance manufacturer, has announced the Roborock Saros Rover, a robot vacuum cleaner that can go up and down stairs. Roborock is scheduled to make its announcement at ...

Dreame presented various smart home products at CES 2026, but one of its showstoppers is its latest robot vacuum prototype called the Cyber X concept that can climb full-size stairs. Dreame Shows Off ...

New bio-inspired robotics courses teach students to build robots like this one, which will one day be able to climb the steps and wave in imitation of the famous "Rocky" museum step climb. Have top ...