Fifty years waiting…
An article over at livescience.com has the basic scooba overview, but also a few neat facts.
Robert Heinlein has the idea for a robot that cleans kitchen floors in his 1956 novel ‘The Door Into Summer’:
What Hired Girl would do… was clean floors . . . any floor, all day long and without supervision… It swept, or mopped, or vacuum-cleaned, or polished, consulting tapes in its idiot memory to decide which. Anything larger than a BB shot it picked up and placed in a tray on its upper surface, for someone brighter to decide whether to keep or throw away….
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