Robot Vacuum Cleans Your Floors, Maps Your Rooms, Sleeps With Your Wife
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 21 of March , 2008 at 12:00 am
The Samsung Hauzen VC-RE70V vacuum robot is one of the few foreign models I’ve seen that isn’t a poorly disguised and partially dysfunctional knockoff of an iRobot Roomba. In fact, it’s got a mapping feature that is a noticeable departure from the way Roombas operate. A small camera in the Hauzen takes pictures of its surroundings and creates some kind of map, which it uses not only to clean more efficiently, but also to return to it’s charging dock and (if necessary) resume cleaning where it left off. This means that the Hauzen will clean much more faster and more efficiently than Roombas do, with their random, insecty logic. The advantage of the Roomba’s approach, however, is that it cleans each spot 3 or 4 times during one cleaning cycle. It remains to be seen which approach is best, or even if there is a best approach. The Hauzen is supposed to be released later this month in Korea, so hopefully more details will be forthcoming.
VIA [ I4U News ]
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Comment by Techbot1968
Made Tuesday, 25 of March , 2008 at 11:12 pm
Looks good. Hopefully it is available in Europe soon.
Comment by Friz05
Made Saturday, 13 of September , 2008 at 9:57 pm
Interesting, here it is now 6 months later and still no sign of it. Is it fact or fiction?