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After the disturbed 2024, Irobot lost it Founder and CEOColeen CornerAmazon abandoned Size plansThe company got rid of A large part of its employeesIROBOT returned with a large smuggling of the automatic void line.
This week, the company that has invented the robot vacuum more than 20 years ago announced eight new models that are definitely not to be used to. It does not look completely different, but also works differently, thanks to a new feature to the room: Lidar navigation and maps drawing.
IROBOT has begun to spread the specifications of the suction power of its robots
The new squad starts from $ 299 and up to $ 999. It features a 105 series of voids and emptiness with a cage option in particular, a 205 series with a new dust compressor on the plane, and a fine 405 and 505 form that brings double rotating pads to the IROBOT family for the first time. The new robots come in black and white and will be available for pre -order on March 18th IRobot.com In the United States and the choice of European markets.
According to the company, this is the biggest product launch in the history of IROBOT. But this is not the biggest surprise. The IROBOT is finally the addition of Lidar navigation and room maps – a technology used by most competitors – a major change that brings maps faster and more features to Roombas. The company also launches a new IROBOT app adding a real -time cleaning offer with the help of Lidar and has started spreading the stroke specifications for its robots.
All new models feature 7000pa and four suction levels, according to the leadership management in IROBOT and Warren Fernandez. Although it indicates that it is not related to the suction power, this is much lower than competition. The latest model for Roboroc, Saros 10He has 22000pa (but cost $ 1,600).
Confrontation Increase competition From Chinese manufacturers, IROBOT has returned to the drawing board with this new line. It includes a completely new industrial design. Roombas has been redesigned from A to Z to accommodate the shift from the camera VLAM navigation To Lidar.
In an interview with Immediately, Fernandez said that IROBOT has now changed after technology assessing some time because they believed that Lidar is finally ripening enough and at reasonable prices enough to fit their own products map.
Lidar’s main benefit is the most intelligent rocked mapping, including the Chamber’s cleaning and the ability to create clean areas and keep areas in the application. For high -end models, the maps should mean faster and the most flexible navigation.
The new is also a sensor for ultrasound carpet detection on all Roombas, so that robots can avoid carpets intelligently when developing. Purification models now contain three levels of water and unique flow from IROBOT SMARTSCRUB option. Previously, most of these features were dedicated to Roombas, which started at $ 500.
Most models now have a Lidar tower on top, and the empty sidewalks automatically have a completely new look. In general, the new Roombas looks more like models of the main IROBOT competitors: Roborock, Dreame and Ecovacs.
The most fictional model in the new font is Roomba Plus Roomba Plus 505 Combo Robot as well as Autowash Dock (yes, the name has become worse). This is the first roomba with dual yarn platforms to clean the solid floors. It can also extend the right mngtar out to clean the edges and raise the MPS 10 mm to avoid low billion billion carpets. Roborock and Dreame had differences in these features for a while.
505 comes with a new multi -functional berth that washed and dries MP platforms, fills the MP tank, and empties the container. It also adds hot drying, something Editing and narration is 10 maximumThe higher robot emptiness of the IROBOT that was launched last summer. Like a maximum of 10, 505 has the discovery of obstacles supported by artificial intelligence, thanks to a camera on the plane, so it should recognize and avoid things like ropes, socks and pets.
Fernkandez says a maximum of 10 remains the current main model, as he has a better cleaning power than 505, but he refused to give suction specifications for that. Various MP is used – a withdrawal system that places MP on the top of the robot to avoid carpets. According to Fernandez, 505 is the only room among the new models to support Matter Smart Home StandardThis is what is done by 10 maximum. All new models will support current integration with Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Home.
Roomba Plus 405 Combo Robot Plus Autowash Dock is a decrease in the price to $ 799 (699 euros). It maintains all the same basic functions – the editorial vacuum and narration with yarn cleansing platforms and a multi -functional sidewalk – but it differs from 505 in several ways. It cannot extend its scanners, does not contain the discovery of an obstacle backed by artificial intelligence (where there is no camera), and lacks the drying of the hot mop. It also contains Clearview Lidar’s standard navigation from IROBOT, while 505 has a Pro version, which Fernandez says is more accurate and can see smaller objects.
The budget assortment is also a great stumbling block. The new ROOBA 105 and 205 series contains the same Lidar -based mapping drawing, liposuction 7000 points, virtual retaining areas, automatic carpet detection and avoiding them, and the capabilities of sensors and avoiding them like 405, all of which are not available at the entry level Roomba i5 and Editing and basic narration.
Both new models come in a vacuum only or the option of editing and narration that adds a removable flat fiber cleansing pillow. It works 105 with automatic empty accusation, but 205 uses the new compactor technology. “It is a type of mini version of the garbage compressor,” says Fernandez. He says it can last two months before emptying it, compared to 75 days on the empty dock. You do not need to find space for an empty sidewalk automatically, which means that you can stick to a robot under the sofa or bed, and added that there is no noise emptying loudly or a need to buy box bags.
Both series are priced in the same path: $ 449 for 105 VAC Robot Plus Autoefpty Dock; 469 dollars (449 euros) for 105 Combo Robot Plus Autoefpty Dock; $ 449 for 205 DustCcompactor Robot; And 469 dollars (449 euros) for the Combo Dustcompaactor 205 robot. (This is more expensive than Liberation and narration line in Roomba Through Dock Auto-Fregty, but they do not have Lidar)
Photo: IROBOT
There are some innovations here; Dust compressors will attract those who do not like the additional chaos of these large vacuum sidewalks. I have seen something similar Narwal Freo X Ultra and found it very good. But in general, this collection is the IROBOT that succumbs to the competition.
What people really want is to rotate the switches, Lidar towers and aspiration specifications, and this is what you get
For years, under the leadership of the founder and CEO Colin Angel, the company stood in its belief that its superior cleaning ability and the most intelligent robots were better. It seems that the new CEO, Gary Cohen, took a look at the competitive scene and decided that what people really want is to rotate wiped platforms, Lidar towers, and suction specifications, and this is what you get. He said in a press release: “Last year, we have invented IRBOT search and development laboratories, and these robots are the result of our world -class engineer.”
The approach “If you cannot overcome” is designed, join “EM” clearly to save the troubled company. Pricing is able to compete, and is associated with the name Roomba, it is a strategy that can work well, assuming that the products are good and reliable as Roombas was traditionally.
I am looking to test the new robots to find out how to accumulate to the current ROOBAS, which has long been some of My favorite robot voids. But for today, I am a little sad to see contracts of innovation and institutions in IROBOT, which seems to be a boring race to the center.