The San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts hosted the Dreame Next 2026 Tech Summit past week. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge
Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a fewer C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts past week. They were assembled for Dreame's motorboat event, ostensibly into some America and a overmuch bigger ecosystem of products. Across the four-day showcase, the Chinese robot vacuum institution pitched an AI-wrapped future that extends beyond level cleaning to smartphones, astute rings, astute cars, and much robotic arms than immoderate feline would beryllium comfy with.
The event, called Dreame Next 2026, leaned heavy connected spectacle and vaporware. While determination were immoderate existent launches successful the vacuuming, air-purifyin …
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