This robotic surface skimmer offers an entirely different concept in pool cleaning. But does that translate to effective debris removal? Lack of solar charging makes it impractical for most pools, where skimming needs to be nonstop. Pool skimmers, which flit along the surface of the water, constitute a small but stable subsection of the pool robot world. While their effectiveness varies, all of them work more or less the same way, cruising around the pool on a catamaran-like body, scooping up leaves into a basket that sits between the two propeller-powered hulls.

Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Now you'll need to subscribe for "expanded access" to the most advanced features. So you paid a few hundred bucks for a neat little gadget and think you're good to go. But it turns out you'll need to subscribe to a monthly plan to unlock its advanced features. That where AI-powered consumer electronics are increasingly heading, and Meta is the latest to prove it with its smart glasses .

This hefty but nimble and highly customizable ebike makes the journey as important as the destination. Get where you want, and have fun along the way. Bigger wheels combined with front suspension can take on anything the road throws at you. Quick-release thru axle is confusing to assemble. Quite heavy and hard to maneuver when not riding.

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These Prime Day vacuum deals will give your home the cleanest summer yet. The summer sale extravaganza has come early this year, and while this is one of many sale events you'll see between now and the holidays, these Prime Day vacuum deals are worth taking a look at. You can get my favorite cordless vacuum, the Shark PowerDetect ($300) for $100 cheaper than usual, or the already affordable Bissell PowerClean FurFinder ($150) with an extra discount. The best robot vacuum we've tried, the Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal ($850) also has a fantastic price tag this week for how powerful it is, and you can get great wet vacuums like the Narwal S30 Pro ($330) on sale too. All of these models and more that we've tested and love are on sale right now.

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The primary goal of PACBench is to catalyze the development of more capable, reliable, and physically grounded VLMs and their fine-tuned variants, often called VLAs for real-world robotic applications. Because VLA fine-tuning typically relies on low-level trajectory data rather than higher level reasoning, probing the underlying VLM's understanding of object Properties, action Affordances, and physical Constraints (PAC) gives us a grounded lens into the capabilities that downstream robotic policies will inherit. By diagnosing PAC weaknesses in the base model, researchers can distinguish whether a VLA's performance stems from genuine physical common sense or simply memorized motion patterns, and thus guide targeted improvements in model architectures, training methodologies, and dataset curation. In doing so, PACBench helps ensure that robotic systems become more predictable, less prone to errors from a lack of physical understanding, and better equipped for safe, effective collaboration in complex, everyday environments. By providing a fine-grained diagnostic tool, PACBench can help researchers and developers identify specific weaknesses in current models, thereby guiding targeted improvements in model architectures, training methodologies, and dataset curation. This, in turn, can lead to robotic systems that are more predictable, less prone to errors stemming from a lack of physical common sense, and better able to perform a wide range of useful tasks. The open release of our benchmark and its diverse data sources (including web-scale images, real-world humanoid captures, and simulated scenarios) is intended to foster broad community engagement and accelerate progress in this crucial area of AI. While any advancement in AI capabilities warrants ongoing consideration of its societal implications, our work focuses on enhancing the fundamental understanding and robustness of AI systems, which we see as a positive step towards more responsible AI development.

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly pivotal for generalist robot manipulation, enabling tasks such as physical reasoning, policy generation, and failure detection. However, their proficiency in these high-level applications often assumes a deep understanding of low-level physical prerequisites, a capability that is largely unverified. To perform actions reliably, robots must comprehend intrinsic object properties (e.g., material, weight), action affordances (e.g., graspable, stackable), and physical constraints (e.g., stability, reachability, or an object's state like being closed). Despite their ubiquitous use in manipulation, we argue that off-the-shelf VLMs may lack this granular, physically-grounded understanding, as these specific prerequisites are often overlooked during training. Addressing this critical gap, we introduce PACBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to systematically evaluate VLMs on their understanding of these core Properties, Affordances, and Constraints (PAC) from a task executability perspective. PAC Bench features a diverse dataset with more than 30,000 annotations, comprising 673 real-world images (115 object classes, 15 property types, 1-3 affordances defined per object class), 100 real-world humanoid view scenarios, and 120 unique simulated constraint scenarios across four tasks. Our evaluations reveal significant gaps in the ability of VLMs to grasp fundamental physical concepts, underscoring their current limitations for reliable robot manipulation and pointing to key areas that require targeted research. PACBench also serves as a standardized benchmark for rigorously evaluating the physical reasoning capabilities of VLMs guiding the development of more robust and physically grounded models for robot manipulation.