Orazio bests the Scooba by vacuuming, cleaning and polishing floors
posted Aug 3rd 2005 10:25AM
Let the robot floor-cleaner wars begin! Less than two months after iRobot announced its
Scooba floor-cleaning bot, the Orazio, from Italy's
Zucchetti, is ready to slide across those scuffed and dirty hardwood floors right after it. According to Zucchetti, the
Orazio doesn't just clean floors, but can polish them as well. All that and the "style of Italian design" too
(though we prefer the Roomba's curves to this one's edges). If this works, we're sure iRobot will have to come up with
a way to add polish to the Scooba's cleaning and vacuuming capabilities; we're sure they're already working on a catchy
name for a floor-polishing bot, like Grand Poobah, or Oohbah, which is the sanitized version of what you may say after
you slip on that freshly polished parquet.
[Via TRFJ]
That thing looks like a cylon! I wonder if the eye light moves from left to right too...
That looks rather Cylon-ish. They should put a commercial on during Sci-Fi's "Battlestar Galactica".
HELLO! It's a cylon.
Apparently, I'm the third person tonight to think it looks like a certain red-eyed toaster...
The Italians make great products, but never seem to show a price or a link to where they can be bought. This is the fourth product made by an Italian company this year that I want to buy or at least know what the price is, but none of that information is available. So frustrating.
Cummon Dyson, whip out the big guns!
And so the Cylons arrived at the "Lost Colony" disguised as a mild mannered floor cleaner. DO NOT Plug this thing into the "Net" as a hybridized T3 Judgement Day/Return of the Cylons-Nuke the last Colony will surely ensue!
...obviously those Cylons need better disguises.