Watch Mi-Mo, a Pixar lamp-like table robot, wave
Mi-Mo is a customizable general-purpose AI robot from Tokyo-based robotics company Jizai, Inc. Unveiled at CES 2025, the goal is for Mi-Mo to one day be an in-home assistant. But for now, the “living” Pixar...
Come along for a ride in a Zoox robotaxi
TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec took us along for a ride in the latest Zoox robotaxi at CES 2025. The autonomous vehicle company has been testing these electric autonomous taxis on the public streets of Las Vegas...
Check out the futuristic Honda 0 SUV
Honda has unveiled its latest EV, the 0 SUV, at CES 2025. The midsize SUV prototype is the first in the 0-line to head to customers with a production version set to ship in 2026....
Check out Halliday’s take on smart glasses
Wearables startup Halliday announced its unique take on smart glasses at CES 2025. These glasses use a display called a “DigiWindow” that is pointed directly at the wearer’s eye. That means the glasses don’t need...
Watch Xpeng Aero HT’s ‘flying car’ in action
Aerospace company Xpeng Aero HT unveiled its “modular flying car” at CES 2025. The Land Aircraft Carrier is a large van-like vehicle with an eVTOL in the back. The company is hoping to deliver the...
2025 could be the year of Samsung’s Ballie
Samsung first introduced the world to Ballie at CES 2020. The cute round robot made another appearance at CES in 2024, and now the company is saying that the home-assistant robot could be rolling into...
Watch this 1-horsepower outdoor exoskeleton in action
Hypershell announced its 1-horsepower exoskeleton at CES 2025. The outdoor Hypershell Carbon X is designed to assist in outdoor activities like hiking or climbing. The company says the exoskeleton should allow its wearer to move...
Method is helping fintech companies like SoFi build repayment functionality into their apps
It can be challenging for developers of fintech apps to integrate repayment, balance transfer, and bill pay functionality. Devs often have to deal with a patchwork of brittle screen-scraping APIs to extract data from users’...
Coval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving cars
What do AI voice agents and self-driving cars have in common? Their performance can be evaluated in the same way, argues Brooke Hopkins, a former tech lead at Waymo. Coval, Hopkins’ new startup, looks to...
A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave continued through 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, 2024 saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Large companies like Tesla,...
