makes your floor shiny, looks cute

So, the iRobot Scooba was the first mopping robot. This may well be the future. I think the Mint looks really cool and it’s technology is even cooler. For one, it is a square shape. We should all know by now that square shapes fit into square holes – this goes the same for robots that clean getting into tight corners. Two, it looks like a mac-mini roaming your house. Three, it accepts your standard Pledge floor-mop cleaner pads (though this may add cost to it’s use, you would still have to pay for liquid cleaner in a Scooba). I will stop counting now as I have a lot more things to say.

It will pick up all the dirt and even that annoying pet hair floating around your dirty, dirty rooms. It has a special mop-mode that allows for it to work on those deeper stains – tea, bolognese, blood, the usual – and, of course, it is small enough to get nearly everywhere. It is whisper quiet, apparently, which is great as it won’t interrupt those really important tv programs you are watching or make dogs whimper and children cry.

It can do the usual cliff detection so it won’t commit vertical suicide, but has the added capabilities of finding edges in rooms and figuring out where rugs and carpets lie. Best of all it uses a Northstar Beacon system for GPS-style navigation and mapping – this means it won’t be meandering around your house forgetting what it’s cleaned and where it’s going. The only downside to all this awesomeness is that it has no base station to go to when it runs out of power. You have to plug it in. Archaic I know, but something I would be able to live with.

This gem of household moppage will be availble later this year and might not cost that much. I have seen the figure $250 banded about, which is about £150 at the time of this going to press.

northstar technology allows for GPS precision

lovable and clean, two traits worthy of anything

Evolution Robotics Mint

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