For years, smart home promises sounded simple: connect lights, locks, thermostats, and speakers, then let automation handle the rest. In reality, many households ended up with a pile of apps, brittle ...

The Roborock Saros 20 gets AI integration that offers a better, more improved experienced for every smart home.

Artificial intelligence can make smart homes smarter, help us manage our days, and even help us plan major life changes. This series looks at the new — and sometimes surprising — ways AI is being used ...

SwitchBot has announced the launch of the SwitchBot AI Hub, a new smart home hub that introduced AI-powered automation without relying on the cloud. It’s also the first local home AI agent to ...

Imagine a home that not only responds to your commands but also sees, understands, and acts on its own. With the integration of AI vision into the Home Assistant platform, this futuristic scenario is ...

Smart home technology can adapt to routines, dim lights for movies, turn off thermostats for work and lock doors automatically at night. While the promise of an interconnected system managing all ...

Most (85%) of us have at least one smart home device: a Nest thermostat, an Echo or HomePod speaker or a smart doorbell. But 15% remain stubbornly analog, without a single smart home device in their ...

Embedded World 2026 made one thing clear: AI is no longer confined to the cloud—it’s moving decisively onto the device.

Apple Inc. is plotting its artificial intelligence comeback with an ambitious slate of new devices, including robots, a lifelike version of Siri, a smart speaker with a display and home-security ...

The arrival of generative AI assistants in our smart homes held such promise; instead, they struggle to turn on the lights. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See ...

AI hacks show how Gemini could be secretly used to control lights, heaters and other smart home tech, signaling a new evolution in digital vulnerabilities. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security and ...