How Well Do You Know Autonomous Vacuum Floor Cleaners?

Autonomous Vacuum Floor Cleaning System:

• Robotic vacuum cleaners combine a limited vacuum floor cleaning system with sensors, robotic drives, and programmable controllers.
• Early designs allowed manual operation via remote control and self-drive mode for autonomous cleaning.
• Some models use spinning brushes to clean tight corners and offer additional features like mopping and UV sterilization.
• Recent models use artificial intelligence and deep learning for better mapping and object identification for event-based cleaning.
• Marketing materials highlight the advantages of low noise, ease of use, and autonomous cleaning.
• Robotic vacuums are smaller and lighter than traditional upright and canister vacuums but take longer to vacuum an area.
• They are relatively expensive, and replacement parts and batteries can contribute significantly to their operating cost.
• iRobot launched the Roomba in 2002, which was the first commercially successful robot vacuum.
• Electrolux introduced the first robotic vacuum cleaner, the Electrolux Trilobite, in 1996 but it failed in the market.
• Dyson and iRobot introduced camera-based mapping in 2015.
• As of 2016, iRobot CEO claims that 20% of vacuum cleaners sales worldwide were robots.
• Robotic vacuums have different cleaning modes, including wet mopping, and mapping ability for more efficient cleaning.