Is the room beautiful with the cleaning robot "Rumba"?

Speaking of popular robot home appliances, Irobot's "Rumba".Her honest work and her charming movement became a hot topic, and in Japan, she joined the star appliances at once.

"But will the room really beautiful in Rumba?"

In conclusion, the answer is Jesus.However, for that, you need to know the performance correctly.

There is no doubt that Rumba has revolutionized the cleaning world.However, as a fate of a new product, it is difficult to convey its performance.I don't know how to use it, so many people chose the usual vacuum cleaner after all.

So, Rumy will call it a "Rumba sports test" to make it easier to understand its performance, and try to approach his physical abilities.

Type 1 "Marathon"

The sports test stage is a room in Tokyo.I scattered paper scraps on the floor and tested how much Rumba could clean the room.

I used the living space of about 8 tatami mats for shooting.

This time, the latest model "Rumba 880" is used.Press the center button to start cleaning.

It moves well and will inhale the garbage on the floor.Under the desk and the sofa, we are running endlessly, taking advantage of the thin aircraft.

The advantage of Rumba is that it can be under the furniture that tends to accumulate dust.The height of the body is 92mm.Even if the bed cover is hanging, if there is a gap under the bed, it will be dive without pulling down.

I go back and forth on the floor many times.Average 4 times per place, run at various angles.Due to its round shape, the entire room moves around without being caught in the interior, and the garbage scattered on the floor is almost sucked.

If there is a start, the marathon has a goal.Rumba will automatically return to the home base after cleaning.Please use this video for the situation at that time.

Rumba can register a weekly time schedule.If you set the timer around the evening of weekdays, the room was already cleaned when you returned home from the company.It's a moment when Rumba, who is taking a rest on a home base, makes you love.

Type 2 "obstacle race"

Can Rumba be used properly in places with lots of furniture?Let's take a look at its performance in the next event "obstacle race".

All kinds of chairs are prepared at the shooting site.If you look closely, you are at the back, Rumba is on standby.

A home base is installed in front of the photo.It is a test to see if Rumba can reach that much.Good luck, Rumba!If you are Motamota, the battery will be gone!

Despite the purpose of the home base, when it hits the legs of the chair, it turns down as if you turned it down and cleaned the legs.

There is a rotating brush called "edge cleaning brush" on the left front of Rumba.The corners of the room and around the legs of the chair are sucked out with this brush while scratching the garbage.

Rumba is about 35cm.If there is more gaps, Rumba will enter under any furniture.Furniture that goes well with Rumba is also called "Roomba-Ablee".

Oh, are you finally finding a home base?

Return safely.Thank you for your hard work.

Depending on the size of the chair, I came back while turning while turning even if I could not go through.

Even in such a complicated place, the reason why Rumba returns is that it is equipped with Rumba's unique robot technology "IADAPT".

"IADAPT" collects information instantly from the dozens of sensors mounted on Rumba.From there, judge the room status, the position of the furniture, and how the floors on the floor.Then, judge more than 60 times per second and select the best one of the 40 or more behavioral patterns that have been derived.The key to Rumba is the ability to judge human beings that can react instantly.

It has already been 13 years since the first Rumba was sold in 2002.Rumba's brain, which has been updated year by year, has finally evolved so far.

Type 3 "High Flying"

The last event to test is "high jump".As expected, I do not jump, but it is not surprisingly how Rumba can exceed the "step".

First of all, these steps in the room.

There is no problem at all because it is a little slope.

In a general house, you can overcome the "sliding door rail" that partitions the room without any problems.It's surprisingly fine even if it's rattled.

Clear a slightly thicker mat.So how thick can you get over?I tried to test the lag with a thickness of the towel.

One can afford.

Cleared 4 pieces without difficulty.

As expected, if it gets thicker up to 8 pieces, it can be overcome.

It seems that you can get over if the "bumper" in front of Rumba does not come into contact.

If it exceeds the gap from the floor to the rumba bumper, the sensor will react and the rumba will start changing.

By the way, there was no problem with thick cords.

Rumba sometimes gets entangled with smartphone charging cables and power cords.However, even if so, there is a "karakari prevention" function that automatically rotates the brush, so you can escape yourself.

This time, I tried various things, but the frank impression is that you can get over something higher than you think.

You're not Rumba ... right?

In the corner of Rumba shooting, I found an object that moves quietly.

Eh ... what is this?

This is an I robot company called "Brava".If Rumba is a "cleaning robot", this is a "floor wiping robot".

Moreover, not only wiping, but also water supply can be "wiped".

It moves very quietly because there is no sucking function like a rumba.In order to understand the room status with a different logic from Rumba, the floor will gradually clean the floor from the end with a unique step.

Leave the water wiping that you couldn't do even if you wanted to do it until now.Clean with Rumba and finish with Bravaba.The perfect partner is here for Rumba.

Click on the official website for Brava's worrisome functions.Rumba is the latest technology condensed, but the operation method is super simple design with "just press the button once".This good operability may be the reason why it was accepted by ordinary households.If you set the schedule, you will not have to press the button.

You need to throw away the accumulated garbage, but there is basically nothing to do.That's why you may be worried and want to doubt, "Is the room really beautiful in Rumba?"

But that is the future that Irobot is aiming for.

Originally, Irobot, a pioneer in robot development that performs dangerous tasks instead of humans.Irobot's robots such as Rumba and Bravaba do not dance, talk, or walk bipedal to entertain people.Rather, it was only developed to do silently given work in a place where it was out of sight.

Works instead of humans and frees humans.That is our robot.(From the official website)

The creation of an Irobot robot had a clear vision.

Rumba makes the inside of the room beautiful during the absence.Eventually, every family becomes a matter of course, and the "cleaning" itself is gone from human life.

Such a world may be far ahead, but the future where robots and robots coexist in science fiction movies are gradually approaching.

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