{"id":8517,"date":"2005-05-27T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T15:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2005-05-27T15:07:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T15:07:11","slug":"irobots-scrubbing-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8517","title":{"rendered":"iRobot&#8217;s Scrubbing Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/irobotScooba.jpg\"> We got one of the iRobot Discovery vacuums for Christmas and we love it. It&#8217;s a perfect example of a consumer robot done right: affordable, great &#8220;out-of-box&#8221; experience, does what it&#8217;s supposed to do, built on appropriate technology, not flashy gee-whiz crap (no sonar or IR sensing, no fancy microcontrollers, no webcam, etc.). It vacuums, plain and simple.<\/p>\n<p> iRobot&#8217;s founder, Rodney Brooks&#8217;s robot design philosophy has always been to build new features\/functions on top of successful previous one. This leads us to the company&#8217;s new Scooba, a robot that can vacuum and wash hardware floors as well as &#8220;mop&#8221; kitchens and bathrooms. Cool.<\/p>\n<p> iRobot says that limited quantities of the bot will be available this holiday season, with a full rollout in early 2006. No word yet on suggested retail price. There&#8217;s a sneak peek video and animation available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irobot.com\/consumer\/scooba_sneak_preview.cfm\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i4u.com\" target=\"new\">I4U<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got one of the iRobot Discovery vacuums for Christmas and we love it. It&#8217;s a perfect example of a consumer robot done right: affordable, great &#8220;out-of-box&#8221; experience, does what it&#8217;s supposed to do, built on appropriate technology, not flashy gee-whiz crap (no sonar or IR sensing, no fancy microcontrollers, no webcam, etc.). It vacuums, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iRobot&#8217;s Scrubbing Bubbles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}