Posts Tagged ‘Roomba’
New version of the LG RoboKing
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 16th, 2009
Look out Roomba, you might have yourself some serious competition with the new version of the LG RoboKing. Is it bigger than you, or is the model (the pretty one on the right) smaller?
Looks like you’re going to have to take on iRobot’s best seller in a titanic Rocky Balboa/Apollo Creed fight. I can tell you that the RoboKing is much quieter than its predecessor. The former version was 63db, while this one is 50db.
It also has two cameras, which they say is an industrial first. I believe that the two cameras give the RoboKing a serious advantage over a robot vacuum with just one. These two cameras allow the RoboKing to better analyze its environment, so it knows exactly where to clean.
The RoboKing is also claimed to have a 30 percent speed increase. This has nothing to do with its size, so I’m told. It is actually smaller in the height category, by the way. This version is 90mm tall while the former version is 130mm.
So far, I don’t have any word of a price or availability date as yet. Maybe they will announce that at CES 2010. I hope they have this on display at CES, because I want to see how fast it can suck up dust. Perhaps LG will use it to clean up the floors after the big show.
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[ New version of the LG RoboKing copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Robot Vacuum Cleaner. With Lasers. Robots. Lasers. Cleaning. Awesome. [Vacuum Cleaner]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 16th, 2009
This new Neato vacuum cleaner has one trick up its nozzle that your average Roomba doesn't—lasers. I'm sold!
Anyone who's ever used a Roomba robot cleaner before will know that it bumps into furniture regularly, even mounting curtains if your back is turned. This new Neato (New! Improved! Neato!) uses a Room Positioning System with its lasers, mapping the floorspace in 36-degrees so it doesn't get into trouble against your prized chaise lounge.
On sale in February, it'll cost $400. Did we mention it comes with lasers?! [Wired]
Deadly Viper Killed by iRobot Roomba [Roomba]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 27th, 2009
There are worse things to worry about in the Middle East than a robotic vacuum cleaner, but to the viper who thought it’d be a cozy place to sleep, it proved to be the end of his violent, snakey existence.
The vipera palaestinae, as his parent snake gods christened him, had wound himself so tightly inside the iRobot Roomba that it died of head wounds. The Roomba? Well, it’s back to a life of giving kittens free rides and not cleaning corners correctly. [Facebook via BotJunkie]
Roomba saves child from deadly Viper, challenges Tango to a fight
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 27th, 2009
Roomba saves child from deadly Viper, challenges Tango to a fight originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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BotJunkie, Facebook | Email this | Comments Video: Hacked Roombas Used to Play Pac-Man, Finally! [Roomba]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 9th, 2009
It was only a matter of time, right? Check out this setup where a laptop player controls "Pac-Man" while being chased by robo-vacuum ghosts. And get this: it's actually a demo of their unmanned aerial software that guides airborne vehicles.
That's why the red tape marking the maze is really only there for the video. The player sees a virtual representation on screen, and the ghost roombas use internal odometry with a positioning system to find their way around, and avoid each other.
Now they just need those LED-lights that make Pac-Man chomp in the dark. [Roomba Pac-Man via Engadget]
Built using our spare time, Roomba Pac-Man is designed to showcase the extensive Unmanned Aerial System software suite that we have developed to support our personal research. It was also a great opportunity to use some of our skills for our own entertainment. As a disclaimer, our research center, RECUV, is not affiliated with the project, and the work done here, while utilizing some software we were paid to develop at CU, is the sole creation of those listed at the bottom of the page.
Autonomous Roombas do Pac-Man right (video)
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 9th, 2009
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Autonomous Roombas do Pac-Man right (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | CommentsArmy of Scarabs Can Keep Streets Clean [Robots]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 16th, 2009
Designer Olga Kalugina defines her Scarab as a "robot-harverster for pedestrian areas." I define it as a potential catastrophe of planetary proportions, to happen when they become sentient and start cutting legs and chopping fallen human bodies.
The design, however, is pretty. It also makes sense:
Robot is created for gathering rubbish from street territories of shopping centers. Robot can gather big rubbish using manipulators. Two web cameras and sensing length element help to make estimate of the territory and find where the rubbish is. Scope of small rubbish creates by two diagonal sweeper-collectors, that sweep just close to the edge. Tank is put away from robot automatically.
It would be nice to see it implemented. New York, for example, needs a few hordes of these robots. [Coroflot via Treehugger]
Modded Roomba Doesn’t Just Pick Things Up, It Hands Them To You [Roomba]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 25th, 2009
Watch how a modified Roomba is picky enough to find, scoop up, and lift objects as small as a quarter. Potential uses of this mod could benefit the elderly and the lazy. [Vimeo via Robots.net]
The Broomba Self-Propelled Broom For Harry Potter Fans [Robots]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 21st, 2009
Unfortunately, the Broomba doesn't clean up after you like a Roomba might, but it does travel autonomously around the room cackling and playing scary music.
As menacing as that sounds, this evil can be stopped in it's tracks by carpet, stairs and / or a gentle push. It can also be humiliated by children attempting to play Quidditch. [Grandinroad via TGH via OhGizmo via Likecool]
