the latest offering from the world of robotic personal assistants, InGen dynamics has unveiled ‘aido’ a balancing, vacuum-shaped home bot. dubbed an ‘interactive personal home robot’, aido aims to take home connectivity to the next level, becoming an indispensable part of your daily life and a natural extension of your existing devices.

aido is certainly one of the more interestingly shaped home-robots we’ve encountered. ergonomically designed, aido gets around by balancing on a ball,…

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) gave birth to the smart-speaker market five years ago when it launched its first Echo device. Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Apple, and others all subsequently launched their own speakers, but Amazon still controlled two-thirds of the U.S. market last year, according to eMarketer.

The smart-speaker market still has room to grow, but…