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Clever Little Vacuum Cleaner Dusty Days Almost Gone
Clever Little Vacuum Cleaner Matsushita has just given a preview demo of their new smart vacuum cleaner. Though it still crashes into chair legs and leaves a lot of space unswept, the developers are confident their product will reach maturity within their 2/3 years shipping deadline. The thing is still quite expensive and cost a fortune to develop, so I hope they know what they are doing! Moscow Times - Vacuum Cleaners Becoming Smarter Market Watch - Matsushita Develops Cleaning Robot Washington Post - Vacuum-Cleaning Robot Unveiled | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Wednesday 27 March, 21:15 Reply
Robot Cleaner Ends Home Drudgery Similar feature on the guardian: Robot Cleaner Ends Home Drudgery Interesting fact in the article: 50 sonic and infra-red sensors are used. This implies that some sort of probabilitist method for combining data is used, probably based on bayesian estimations. | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Thursday 11 April, 08:26 Reply