Tag archive: Roomba

Tablets, TVs, e-readers, smartphones, and 3D glasses are great and all, but let's face it: robots are the future. They're metal, they're shiny, they're creepy, and they're at CES. Before we left the show last week, we took a trip to the Robotics Zone of the South Hall to see what animatronic miracles were conjured up this year. Unfortunately, all the fuss over touch screens and telephones has lead to a serious… Read More

This mini automatic floor cleaner from Mint works hard to mop or sweep your hardwood, tile, or laminate floors so you don't have to. Similar to the popular Roomba automatic vacuum, the Mint Robo Hard Floor Cleaner is specially designed to get your hard floors sparkling clean without any elbow grease on your part. The cleaning robot ($250) uses microfiber cloths and is small enough to fit under many items of furniture. Mint uses the… Read More

If iRobot’s existing robots that vacuum, mop, scoop out your gutters and clean your pool bottom aren’t already enough to keep your pad squeaky clean, perhaps one of the latest two specialty robots the company scooted out on Wednesday will do the trick. The Roomba Pet Series will cater especially to picking up debris from your fluffy little critter, while the Professional Series has been hopped up to deal with bigger,… Read More

Sounds like a genius idea doesn't it? Program your Roomba Vacuum to clean your home while you are away at work and everything is spotless by the time you get home. Well now it's a reality. The new Roomba Scheduler includes built-in scheduling technology that allows people to program the new robot to clean floors at a certain time each day, seven days a week. If you have an existing Roomba Discovery series model, then you can add… Read More