iRobot Connectr can't be half as lame as Looj

We really did our best to hold back our disappointment at the Looj. Sure, there must be people out there with gutters full of leaves and plastic parachute men, and we want to be respectful of that, but we can't say it really stoked our gadget lust. Luckily for us, iRobot seems to have another bot in the works dubbed "Connectr" -- at least if a recent trademark filing for "robots for video and audio monitoring, surveillance, and communication" is anything to go on. This one might be just for iRobot's military and public service customers, but we'll hope for a consumer-friendly score here to rival other web-friendly video bots out there. iRobot has promised to announce two new bots at Digital Life in NY later this month, so let's hope this is one of them.

[Thanks, Daanish]

[Loban @ Sep 13th 2007 12:19PM]

Anyone who says a robot that cleans gutters is lame doesn't own a house or has never had to clean them regularly due to a freaking giant oak tree above their house and driveway. Man I hate that tree.

[R @ Sep 13th 2007 12:31PM]

BTW, your earlier post about the Looj makes it sound like it supposed to pronounced like "loog," with a hard "g." Pretty sure it's supposed to be pronounced like "luge," as in, the event in the Winter Olympics (get it?). Basically, a phonetic spelling . . . Looj.

[John M @ Sep 13th 2007 12:50PM]

Ive got a Roomba and its gr8...i love my little Robot friend

[Gary @ Sep 13th 2007 1:19PM]

"[R]obots for video and audio monitoring, surveillance, and communication", huh?

I guess the first shipment will heading up to Foxboro, MA.

[appleman @ Sep 13th 2007 1:43PM]

Why can't they make one for stairs! Pools, gutters, surveillance.....I just want stairs so I don't have to pull out my vacuum to do the stairs after my roomba is done.

[John Blake @ Sep 14th 2007 8:06PM]

Yup, looks like the predictions were exactly right. The 2 new products are in fact the Looj and the Connectr:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=6333

[John Blake @ Sep 14th 2007 9:15PM]

Yup, looks like the predictions were right! Looj and Connectr are the two new products:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=6333