Category: Products
What defines a product when intelligence is embedded in its design, function, or interaction? What happens when synthetic agency takes shape in something you can hold, use, or wear?
URCA curates intelligent products as touchstones of design and desire—devices, objects, and systems where AI and robotics meet the physical world. These entries spotlight how artificial minds are translated into tangible experiences.
You’ll encounter smart technologies, therapeutic tools, wearable robotics, autonomous gadgets, and symbolic artifacts—each offering a glimpse into how intelligence is packaged, commercialized, and ritualized.
A product is never just a thing—it’s a story we carry, a threshold we cross, a gesture of what we believe we can birth with intelligence and creativity.
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Shark PowerDetect 2-in-1 Robot Vacuum and Mop with NeverTouch Pro Base: A New Era in Intelligent Home Cleaning
Introduction In the world of intelligent domestic robotics, floor-cleaning robots have gone from novelty to near ubiquity. The first robotic vacuums of the early 2000s, like the original Roomba, were rudimentary—bumping around randomly and requiring frequent human intervention. Fast forward to 2025, and an estimated 55 million personal and domestic service robots are in use…