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 ...

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 ...

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

The increasing number of smart home devices on the market can either help to make sense of that chaos, or cause even more ...

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 ...

SwitchBot AI Hub combines edge AI, Vision-Language Models, and OpenClaw to deliver always-on, conversational smart home ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Prompt injections have become one of the biggest emerging threats to the modern home as AI adoption grows. It's a new era of malware -- and one that requires new defenses. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home ...