Robot news
Robot news, from Australia
What is new in robots around the world, and what it means here.
-
The Enabot EBO Max in Australia: a rolling camera that talks back and remembers the family
Enabot has put a talking AI into its rolling home camera. The EBO Max learns faces, takes chained instructions, calls your phone when someone falls and costs $899 at the Australian store.
-
Cloudflare's Clef, and whether your robot vacuum is about to get smarter
Cloudflare has released Clef, two open-source AI models built to make quick decisions instead of writing text. A post on X says your robot vacuum is next. Some of that holds up.
-
A robot that patrols your house tonight, buyable in Australia
Samsung shelved Ballie, Amazon keeps Astro in the United States on invitation, and the Ring indoor drone never shipped. What is left in Australia is a $1,399 patrol robot and a shelf of vacuums that already have a camera on the front.
-
What a Tesla Optimus would cost landed in Australia, and why nobody here can buy one yet
There is no manufacturer price for a Tesla Optimus, only a US$20,000 to US$30,000 target Elon Musk gave at Davos in January 2026. This is what that target would turn into at an Australian address, and why the whole thing is arithmetic rather than a purchase.
-
Hugging Face's Microduck: a US$399 robot you can train yourself, and getting one in Australia
Microduck is a 25 cm robot duck that walks, roller-skates and picks things up, with software anyone can retrain. Pre-orders are open at US$399. Australia is not on the launch list yet, and new orders now ship after April 2027.