In this busy day of ours, we try to do everything that
matters to us. Waking in the morning, preparing food, washing clothes, going to
work, exercising, shopping, sleeping, travelling and many other things that we
do matters to us and consumes our time too. Cleaning our house or lawn is also
an essential thing and sometimes laziness affects us which leads to an untidy
house. Maids come and go but some dust remains whatsoever.
Laziness can be tolerated but an untidy premises due to that cannot
be and must not be given way for. Cleanliness is next to godliness and the
great Gandhi ji even said that “Sanitation is more important than
Independence”. To be clean means to be healthy, wealthy and wise. Many of the
working class may not have time to clean their house on a regular basis and
sometimes to the outdoors too. They might do cleaning once a month or when some
guests arrive. Lack of time and laziness may be the problem but as every
problem has a solution, this problem too has a solution and that is iRobot.
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| simple smartphone control |
iRobot is a 29 year old company based in Massachusetts, USA. It
has sold around 25 million robotic devices to various customers and has its
offices in UK, China, Hong Kong and India. iRobot has every type of robotic
devices that will automatically do all your household cleaning work just with
the help of your smartphone. Let’s talk about each device one by one.
1. Roomba
Roomba is an automatic robotic vacuum cleaner and is one of
the most popular and leading brands in American household. There are various
versions of Roomba available from the iRobot company depending upon their
features and cost. The latest one is the Roomba i7 model. Roomba can be
controlled through smartphone with a pre- installed iRobot HOME app from the
company. You could set the rooms which you want to clean on the app and Roomba will
move into those rooms systematically using the imprint smart mapping
technology. You just need a good Wi-Fi connection and you could even control
your Roomba device with google assistant feature or amazon Alexa device. It
claims to be pick more and large pet hairs than a normal vacuum. They have high
tech sensors to distinguish the objects, multi-surface brushes and a suction to
suck every minute to large soil particles in the house. You also get a wall
barrier with high end models in which the Roomba will automatically store the
dirt collected into a small bin present inside the barrier. Roomba will
automatically travel to the barrier without any human help. The Roomba price
ranges from $299 to $1099 and is available in India also.
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| wall barrier |
2. Braava
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| with jet spray |
With Roomba your floor may be free of dirt and other soil
particles but will it look fresh and shining. To make a floor shining, you need
to clean it with water and maybe your time and laziness doesn’t allow it. No
problem with that too, as iRobot has a robot cleaner which sprays water onto
the floor from its jet spray and cleans that area with a cloth attached under it.
This mop robot is called Braava. It cleans every kind of stain on your floor and
the floor can be tile, wood or stone. It has three modes of cleaning which is wet
mopping, damp sweeping and dry are sweeping. Just attach the preferred pad
underneath Braava and press the clean button and see how automatically it cleans
every nook and corner of your room. After cleaning, throw the pad into a bin without
even touching it by pressing a button on the Braava. Like Roomba, Braava also
works on iRobot HOME app. There are 2 versions available for $199 and $299.
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| insert the pad |
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| remove the pad |
3. Mirra
As we are done with cleaning the inside of our house, let’s
move outdoors to clean our pools. Any season, doesn’t matter as pools are full
of leaves, dirt and bacteria. What if you are planning to swim in your pool to
escape the humid climate? You will have to clean the large pool as quickly as
possible. Mirra is a pool cleaning robot from iRobot which works exactly like Roomba
but inside a pool. The main feature of Mirra is that it not only cleans the
floor of the pool but even cleans the walls of the pool by walking on it,
defying gravity. It sucks in large particles like leaves and hair and small particles
up to the size of 2 microns like pollen, algae and bacteria. So no more
chlorination needed. It can filter almost 70 gallons of water per minute. Just attach
the power cord to Mirra and drop it into the pool and press the CLEAN button on
an external device kept outside the pool. Mirra using its iAdapt Nautiq technology
will clean every corner of the pool. After cleaning, remove the dirt from the
easy detachable carrier placed in Mirra and swim in the pool as much as you
want. Mirra costs around $1099.
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| inside the pool |
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| on the wall |
4. Terra
Nearby the pool, you could see a lawn which has not be
maintained for a long time. No problem as Terra robot mower from iRobot is
there for you. It trims the extra grass in your lawn in an organized, straight line
navigation method using the same technology that is used in other iRobot
devices which is smart mapping technology. With the help of iRobot HOME app and a beacon
installed in the lawn, Terra automatically moves around the lawn mowing the
grass. It is the latest product from iRobot and the prices have not been
announced yet.
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| smart mapping technology |
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| beacon technology |
Technology has come a long way and is not done yet. Maybe the
above mentioned gadgets have taken place of a maid and a gardener. But the
gadgets have also made our life easier and more efficient. There are 2 sides of
a coin and we have to choose one. We cannot choose either the sides or no sides
at all. We have to be part of the technology in one way or the other.
