Home robots all the rage at IFA in Berlin

Among the TVs, the smartphones and the drones, robots held centre stages this year at Europe’s biggest tech trade show, IFA, in Berlin.

Home robots especially are all the rage and are becoming increasingly affordable. The message is: let them do the hard work, while you put your feet up.

“We have been seeing robots around for quite a while. Is there a trend? Of course there is,” says Nicole Scott, editor of the Mobile Geeks news website.

“Robots have been in factories for years. It is just that now we are finally seeing them come in to the home. IoT (Internet of Things) is finally at a place where automation or types of use are affordable for the average consumer: so window cleaning robots, floor cleaning robots, robots that will go around the house to check on different things, like robots to watch your pets, or feed your pets.”