No, this is not a blog about deep-sea diving or cartoon characters. It concerns the brother of the Roomba vacuum cleaner robot, the Scooba. It brags that it can wash, scrub and dry floors in any home all at once. (Not quite as good as leaping tall buildings in a single bound, but close.) Can any human live up to such a boast?
Scooba is an intelligent and effective floor-washing robot, which features the same AWARE robot intelligence system as its older brother, the Roomba. Scooba will clean a standard size kitchen on a single tank full of cleaning solution. The weapon is the special soap, which was designed by chemists at Clorox. It’s easy on the robot and helps it maintain the necessary wheel traction, but hard and unforgiving on surrounding dirt. It cleans in those hard to reach places; under furniture and tables, and is equally effective on vinyl, marble, slate and sealed hardwood floors.
The Scooba cleans every area of the floor multiple times, being a glutton for punishment and unable to subtract. It seems indeed, to have a mind all of its own, bent on cleanliness. It uses sensors and its robot intelligence to navigate its way around the room. It lives for one purpose only:to clean until it dies. Its compact size makes it very easy to use, which may inspire you to wash those floors more frequently instead of saving the chore for those periodic visits from in-laws and other white-glove relatives and friends.
What happens if it gets away or becomes mad?
Do YOU have any experience with this wonderful product or its brother? Please share your knowledge of the family.