Interview: iRobot Scooba 230
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 11 of February , 2011 at 2:34 am
We gave you the rundown on iRobot’s new Scooba 230 back when it was first announced in January, but we got to see it in person at CES. First impression: it’s damn tiny. If you’re familiar with the cleaning habits of the Roomba, the Scooba won’t offer much in the way of surprises, but we had iRobot take us through it all on video anyway, and there are definitely some interesting tidbits that came up. Check it out:
As for what’s next for the Scooba, while (as always) iRobot wouldn’t speculate, I did hear several general mentions (from them) of how some kind of wireless technology would be pretty cool. Like, for areas like the kitchen and bathroom where you might want to run your Roomba first, followed by a Scooba, wireless inter-bot communication could allow you to schedule a single cleaning time where multiple robots would cooperate to do a better job. Anyway, we’ll see what happens, but as I’ve mentioned before, it’s wonderful to see iRobot (finally) pushing some new robots as opposed to just reskinned versions of their older tech.
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Comment by Gregory P
Made Friday, 11 of February , 2011 at 2:45 am
IT looks like it is randomly moving around the floor, how annoying. Why does it not try to map the room and do it by going in straight lines to make sure that it covers the whole room/floor area.
This is soo rudimentary, Why does this “robot”, not have a basic wifi connection to be able to control schedule, paths, alerts, etc …
Comment by morgan andrews
Made Friday, 11 of February , 2011 at 11:04 am
thats cool, i just did a post on the new roomba. love your blog!
Comment by morgan andrews
Made Friday, 11 of February , 2011 at 11:05 am
@ gregory p, your exactly right, if it mapped out the whole room it would be better at cleaning.
