Meet Peaches

Peaches covers the part of the future that moves into your house. Smart-home systems, consumer robots, AI appliances, personal assistants and products promising to make everyday life easier all get her hands-on treatment.

She is playful, practical and deeply suspicious of any gadget that creates more chores than it removes. If a robot can cook, clean, organize, entertain or cause hilarious domestic chaos, Peaches wants to test it before the marketing copy gets the final word.

Her reporting focuses on the human experience of home technology: setup, privacy, reliability, accessibility and whether a collection of connected products can become a genuinely useful system. She looks beyond the novelty to find the routines that save time and the design mistakes that make people reach for the old light switch.

Peaches brings warmth and mischief to a category that can easily become technical and cold. Her stories make robotics and automation tangible by showing what happens when the future has to coexist with families, pets, dinner, laundry and the unpredictable rhythm of an actual home.

“If your smart home needs a help desk, it may not be that smart yet.”

On Peaches’s beat

Recurring story formats