A Domino’s in Portland quietly let go of three human delivery drivers last week. Reason?Their new Kiwibot 5 completed 1,842 deliveries in December with: The robot costs $4.20 per hour to run (including charging).Average human driver cost: $21.80/hour after tips, insurance,…
The Robot That Just Made Me Cry in CostcoJanuary 2, 2026
I was in the warehouse aisle today when I saw it. An elderly man in a wheelchair was trying to reach a 24-pack of water on the top shelf.His wife was on tiptoes, still 18 inches short. Then a Boston Dynamics…
The Robot That Just Saved My Marriage (No, Really)December 29, 2025
The fight was always the same every Sunday night:“Who’s taking the trash bins to the curb?”Neither of us wanted to do it in the rain.We’d passive-aggressive each other until 11:58 p.m., then one of us would stomp out in slippers. Last…
The Robot That Cooked Christmas Dinner While We Opened Presents
December 26, 2025 True story from yesterday. 8:14 a.m. – I told the Moley Robotics kitchen arm (Samsung Bot Chef):“Make beef Wellington, garlic mash, and honey-glazed carrots for 12 people. Ready at 3 p.m.” Then I forgot about it. What actually…
The Robot That Just Made My Kid’s Teacher Cry (in a good way)
December 24, 2025 My 7-year-old came home from school yesterday and said:“Mr. Ember read the entire class a bedtime story in 40 different voices — and he never got tired.” Mr. Ember is not human.He’s a Moxie 2.0 robot sitting on…
The Robot That Already Replaced Me at IKEA
December 21, 2025 Today I watched a robot do my old weekend job — and it was weirdly emotional. IKEA quietly rolled out Agility Digit (the blue humanoid) in 42 U.S. stores this month. What it does in real life (filmed…
The $799 Robot That Ended Package Porch Piracy in My Neighborhood
December 18, 2025 Last week my Ring camera caught this:A guy walks up to grab an Amazon box.A basketball-sized yellow ball rolls out of my garage, projects a 120 dB siren, flashes red strobes, and yells in a German-Shepherd bark:“STEP AWAY…
The Robot That Already Lives in 50,000 Homes (And You Didn’t Notice)
December 14, 2025 It’s not a humanoid.It doesn’t walk, talk, or look cute.But it has quietly become the most successful consumer robot in history. Meet the Labrador Retriever (yes, that’s the actual product name). What it does (real numbers, 2025): Price…
Robotics in Everyday Life – 2025 Edition
(What’s actually shipping to normal people right now, not sci-fi) By the end of 2026, these robots will be as normal in middle-class homes as an air-fryer is today: 1. Laundry RobotReal product: Figure 03 / 1X Neva / Boston Dynamics…