News, Reviews and Information on iRobot Scooba

Archive for December, 2005

Some Comments

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Hope everyone is enjoying their holidays! There are a few people who have posted comments on some older posts, but I think they deserve their own post.
From Sarah:
I have a Scooba and it does not avoid the carpet. My carpet is divided from the kitchen linoleum by a thin metal strip. There is no […]

3.5 / 5 from PC Mag

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Lance Ulanoff from PC Magazine has a review of the Scooba that you can read here
I’ve been worried about the noise after watching the online videos, but Lance says it’s not too bad.

The Scooba’s 80-dB whirring is louder than the slosh of a mop, but not annoying.

On getting stuck:

I also had to move my virtual […]

USA Today

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Edward Baig from USA Today got to play around with a final engineering prototype of the scooba. Read his article here
A few points:
Though it cleaned admirably, Scooba missed a few spots in my kitchen. It won’t eliminate deep scuff marks, and it failed to fully remove a red cupcake icing stain.
A couple of times, […]

Time Review

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

I think Time is the first to give an initial review of the Scooba (someone correct me if i’m wrong). Anyhow, here it is.
It looks like the device works well:
..it managed to cover every inch of the kitchen floor in that time [20 minutes]. The linoleum that had been greasy and sticky, with the […]