Scooba: First Look
Taken from News.com,
The Scooba is a household, robotic floor cleaner designed for hard floors made of materials such as tile and linoleum. It vacuums up loose particles and applies cleaner to soak up dirt, then dries the floor, which also makes it safe for wood.
Hopefully the Scooba lives up to it’s hype. I’m wondering if the Scooba only accepts a special type of detergent, or if any detergent is accepted. I’m also curious to know about Scooba’s detergent consumption. If the AI isn’t smart enough, lots of detergent will be wasted on clean flooring.
I assume like the Roomba there will a Home Base that the Scooba can automatically hook-up to and re-charge. It would be great it the Home Base could also dispense the detergent.
Also found in the article is a quote from iRobot’s CEO:
“It is like an industrial floor cleaner, but for your home,” said iRobot CEO Colin Angle. “Even if it wasn’t a robot, this (makes mopping obsolete). With mopping, most of the time you are spreading dirty water around. But because it’s a robot you push a button and it cleans your floor.”
