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Samsung shows off Navibot vacuum cleaner robot
KOREAN MANUFACTURER Samsung showed off one of its newest household gadgets, the Navibot automatic vacuum cleaner, at a London event last night.
Closely resembling the Roomba, the Navibot uses an upward facing camera to get an idea of the room layout by mapping the ceiling. This, in conjuction with over 50 other sensors allows the little guy to get in around all the clutter and furinture without breaking anything or falling down the stairs.
According to Samsung, the Navibot takes about two hours charge and can last for about 90 minutes on a charge, but if that isn't enough time, it'll return to its charging dock before it runs out of power and then return to where it left off when it's fully charged again.
The standard version will set you back £399 while the premium model will cost an extra £50, but gives you a scheduler and a few other added features. Both will be arriving in the UK next month. µ
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These are fun, but useless for real cleaning. They don't clean anywhere near as deeply as something like a Dyson.
I have a Roomba, which looks the same and sounds the same as this (despite the assertions this is something new, the Roomba knows where it is and remembers the room layout).
The problems are, its wheels get full of dog hair, it doesn't do medium long pile carpet well, but above all it is too flippin small!
It fills up too quickly and can't self-evacuate. Make the "bag" area bigger...
navi-bot? the name has nothing to do with some recent movie featuring 10ft blue aliens. No connection what so ever. Just like it was a coincidence that everything was called a neo-something right about after the matrix came out...
GET CREATIVE
lol
I don't get the mapping of the ceiling thing at all as well, you don't have furniture on the ceiling and isn't it as such going to an utterly useless map other than giving it a size of the room and allow it to know the centre of the room or something? or am I missing something here?
All I keep on thinking of is the things going to spend all day humping the leg of a table as the ceiling hasn't a table on it :P
I apologize that this is totally off-topic, but is that video player used by The Inquirer, specifically http://www.theinquirer.net/postVideoPlayer07.swf free to use? What is the homepage of that player?
I wonder what behavior it has outside, or in vaulted ceilings?
can it map the arc of a vaulted ceiling?
The future becomes clear:
The prelude to Skynet will be a bunch of discoid PervBots peaking up ladies' skirts.
Bravo to whomever thought up mapping the ceiling (an employee at Samsung or someone else).