“Too lazy to clean your house, no problem”

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. 

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. 

wall barrier

2. Braava

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.

insert the pad

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.

inside the pool

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.

smart mapping technology

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.