Home Automation News 6 July 2025

Meet Neo, the $20,000 Humanoid Robot Ready to Move Into Your Home

Neo: A Humanoid Housekeeper Arrives After decades of humanoid robots appearing in labs and movies, the era of the at-home robot butler may finally be dawning. On October 28, 2025, 1X Technologies announced it is taking orders for Neo, a human-sized robot intended to live in people’s homes and help with everyday chores sifted.eu fastcompany.com. Billed as “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid,” Neo is essentially a robotic housekeeper – it can fold laundry, tidy up clutter, carry groceries, fetch items, and even load the dishwasher, according to the company businesswire.com businesswire.com. The bipedal bot has two arms with dexterous hands (22

29 October 2025

Philips Hue’s 2025 Update Changes the Game: Bridge Pro, Cheaper Bulbs & Bold New Moves

Philips Hue’s Huge 2025 Launch: Bridge Pro, Budget Bulbs & a Smart Doorbell – Everything You Need to Know

Introduction: Hue’s Biggest Launch Yet Philips Hue (by Signify) pulled back the curtain on a massive product launch on September 4, 2025, at the IFA tech show in Berlin. Under the theme “Reimagine Your Home,” the smart lighting pioneer unveiled major new hardware spanning hubs, lights, and even home security signify.com. This is widely touted as Hue’s largest product refresh ever, marking a bold expansion beyond lights into areas like security cameras and doorbells techradar.com. “With these launches, we are opening a new chapter for Philips Hue,” said John Smith, Philips Hue’s Business Leader at Signify, hinting that while smart

18 September 2025

Gadgets · Home Automation · NASDAQ:SONO · New Releases · NYSE:PHG · Reviews · Smart Lighting

Smart Home Showdown 2025: Google Nest vs Alexa, HomeKit & the Rest – Which Ecosystem Rules?

The Post-Assistant Era: Google’s Gemini Comes Home – What It Means for Your Smart Home

A New AI Voice Assistant for the Home: Gemini for Home Nearly a decade after introducing Google Assistant as a handy voice helper, Google is now giving its smart home ecosystem a radical upgrade. Gemini for Home is an all-new AI voice assistant that will “eventually replace Google Assistant” on all Nest-brand smart speakers and smart displays theverge.com. Announced in August 2025 by Google’s Nest team, Gemini for Home is built on the company’s latest large language model (LLM) technology (the same family of AI models behind Google’s Gemini chatbot). This means it can understand and respond to far more

14 September 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Digital Assistants · Google Gemini · Home Automation · NASDAQ:GOOGL · Smart Home

Ring’s Flying Security Cam Takes Off Again? Inside the Ring Always Home Cam & the Future of Home Surveillance

A Flying Security Camera for Your Living Room The Ring Always Home Cam is unlike any security camera you’ve seen – because it doesn’t sit in one place. Announced at Amazon’s 2020 hardware event, this pint-sized indoor drone is designed to take off from its dock and fly preset routes through your house, giving you a roaming eye on your property digitaltrends.com digitaltrends.com. It essentially promises to be “an extension of your own two eyes”, reaching every corner that a fixed camera can’t digitaltrends.com. Ring’s pitch was simple: instead of buying a camera for each room, one flying cam could

5 September 2025

Cameras · Gadget Reviews · Home Automation · Security · Smart Home

Google Smart Home Ecosystem 2025: New AI Upgrades, Nest Devices and Everything You Need to Know

Google Nest Hardware: Speakers, Displays, Cameras and More Google’s smart home lineup (branded Google Nest) spans smart speakers, smart displays, security cameras, video doorbells, thermostats, sensors, and networking gear. Below we break down each category, highlighting the latest hardware, standout features, specs, and how they compare across generations. Smart Speakers: Nest Mini & Nest Audio (and Upcoming AI Speaker) Google currently sells two main smart speakers: the Nest Mini (2nd Gen) and the Nest Audio. The Nest Mini is a compact, puck-shaped speaker (successor to the original Google Home Mini) that launched in late 2019 for about $49 routenote.com. It

31 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Gadgets · Google · Home Automation · NASDAQ:GOOGL · Smart Home

LeafyPod AI Planter: The Self‑Watering Gadget That Promises You’ll Never Kill a Plant Again

What Is LeafyPod? A Smart Planter Overview LeafyPod is a new AI-driven, self-watering planter designed to make indoor plant care virtually foolproof. In simple terms, it’s a plant pot that waters your plant and monitors its needs automatically, using sensors and a smartphone app. The device was unveiled at CES 2025 as a high-tech solution for people who love houseplants but struggle to keep them alive usatoday.com. As USA Today quipped, “LeafyPod is an AI-infused plant pot for anyone who missed out on the green thumb gene at birth” usatoday.com. In other words, it’s built for busy or novice plant

31 August 2025

AI Technology · Gadgets · Home Automation · Plant Care · Smart Gardening

Smart Home Revolution: How Integrated Tech Is Transforming Homes in 2025

93% of Americans now own at least one smart home device, and 42% say most of their home gadgets are “smart.” The global smart home market is booming (projected to exceed $633 billion by 2032). Matter, the universal smart home standard, launched in late 2022; Matter 1.2 arrived in October 2023; 1.3 in May 2024; 1.4 in late 2024 with Enhanced Multi-Admin, and by mid-2025 major platforms like Amazon Alexa, Google Nest, Apple Home, and Samsung SmartThings support it. Thread is a low-power IPv6-based mesh protocol that underpins Matter, with a major Thread 1.4 upgrade in 2024 addressing reliability and

28 July 2025

Connected Devices · Future Living · Home Automation · Smart Home · Technology

Smart Homes Just Got Smarter: New Gadgets, Big Trends & Surprising Challenges in Summer 2025

In June 2025 Generac launched ecobee by Generac Smart Thermostat Enhanced with built-in Home Energy Management, promising up to 26% savings on annual heating and cooling and direct coordination with Generac generators and solar batteries. In June 2025 Arlo rolled out Advanced Audio Detection for Arlo Secure Plus, enabling cameras and doorbells to recognize sounds such as a person screaming, glass breaking, gunshots, dog barks, and smoke alarms with instant video alerts. The Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch, introduced in late spring 2025, uses fingerprint biometric unlocking and disarms the alarm, and integrates via Z-Wave with ADT’s security system. Samsung’s

6 July 2025

Challenges · Gadgets · Home Automation · Smart Homes · Tech Trends

Home Automation News 6 July 2025 - 29 October 2025