Garbage disposal once every 3.5 months! Robot vacuum cleaner "DEEBOT OZMO T8 +" equipped with a 3D object recognition sensor that recognizes smartphone charging cords

Recently, there is a manufacturer that has been attracting a lot of attention in the robot vacuum cleaner corner. That's Ecovacs. Ecovacs has a wide range of models, from cheap products that can be purchased for tens of thousands of yen to full-fledged robot vacuum cleaners in the 100,000 yen range. In addition, we released a window cleaning robot vacuum cleaner, which is popular in the robot vacuum cleaner corners of retailers.

This time, I would like to introduce the DEEBOT OZMO T8+, which is a high-end machine among Ecovacs.

As you can see at a glance, the point is that there is a charging stand that automatically collects garbage like the i7+, which costs about 140,000 yen, and the S9+, which costs about 190,000 yen.

Among the most technically impressive are the room exploration using optical ToF sensors and stereoscopic recognition of obstacles in front using structured light. It's a completely different approach to room search and obstacle detection than other companies, but I'm amazed by its amazing accuracy, speed, and cleverness.

Let's examine "what" is amazing about "DEEBOT OZMO T8", which is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and performs original mapping and obstacle avoidance.

"DEEBOT OZMO 950" which was introduced in the previous article "The pinnacle of laser mapping technology! This is a value model!!". Although it costs about 50,000 yen, it has the same functions as other companies' 100,000 yen class robot vacuum cleaners, and it can recognize the shape of the room with a laser and work with a smartphone, making it a highly cost-effective robot vacuum cleaner. introduced.

The “DEEBOT OZMO T8” introduced here is a high-end model of the “DEEBOT OZMO 950”, and the “DEEBOT OZMO T8+” model is an “automatic garbage collection stand” that automatically collects garbage from the robot vacuum cleaner. ” is standard equipment.

The main feature of the "DEEBOT OZMO T8" is to measure space using a laser technology called D-ToF. Ecovacs' own True Mapping^TM (True Mapping) technology analyzes this and applies it to the robot vacuum cleaner. In addition, the original True Detect^TM, which uses 3D structured light technology, illuminates stripes of infrared rays and captures the height of obstacles ahead in three dimensions with a camera. It also has technology.

Technical commentary will be postponed, but from the results, conventional laser search + mapping can clearly capture nearby obstacles, but obstacles 5 to 8 meters ahead are "blurred". . However, this machine using D-ToF has a "clear" line of sight up to about 10 meters ahead.

As a result, when there are no obstacles on the way, it speeds up and moves smoothly, and when it gets close to obstacles, it uses various sensors to start with furniture on the floor, children's toys, and laundry. Clean while running carefully so as not to bump into the luggage received from, as well as people and pets. Despite running at breakneck speed where there are no obstacles, it is a bold but cautious robot vacuum cleaner that is careful and does not collide with obstacles.

Of course, at the same time as absorbing and cleaning, it also inherits the function of mopping the floor. For barefoot people in the summer, it will be a gem flooring finish.

The automatic garbage collection stand not only serves as a charging station, but also collects garbage in the room cleaned by "DEEBOT OZMO T8" into a paper bag inside the station. According to the manufacturer, you can save 30 times by cleaning twice a week, so you can live a super lazy life by just throwing away the garbage once every 3.5 months.

The DEEBOT OZMO T8's True Mapping^TM technology is supported by the latest precision distance measurement and spatial recognition technology called D-ToF. D-ToF emits a laser for a moment (pulse) and measures the time it takes for it to bounce off an obstacle such as a wall and come back.

The speed of light is 300,000 km/h, which can circle the earth seven and a half times in one second. In other words, you need a mind-bogglingly accurate watch to measure to the nearest meter. This is one of the reasons why it has been difficult to put it into practical use.

A theory that if you halve the time it takes for a laser to fire and return, you can measure distance based on the speed of light. Moreover, since Einstein proved that the speed of light is constant, it does not depend on the temperature like sound waves (340m/s at 15℃, and 0.6m/s when the temperature rises by 1℃). There is no error due to

In this way, the DEEBOT OZMO T8's True Mapping^TM rotates the laser in the chimney and emits pulses 7,200 times per second to create a wall or wall within a 10m radius. Recognize obstacles.

D-ToF technology is the latest technology used in autonomous driving developed by car manufacturers such as Google. It is used not only to monitor the ever-changing surroundings, but also to identify pedestrians and oncoming vehicles. "DEEBOT OZMO T8" is the first to incorporate this technology into a robot vacuum cleaner.

Explaining the difference from conventional laser search methods in detail would take a whole book, so I will omit it here. , The conventional method was a mapping method that "even small objects can be clearly recognized up close, but they are roughly recognizable in the distance." Intuitively speaking, D-ToF is like a digital rangefinder used by an airplane to measure altitude, while the conventional type is analog sonar called a "pawn" on a submarine. The resulting functionality is the same, but the accuracy, speed, and search range are completely different.

With this technology, as I briefly explained earlier, when there are no obstacles, the robot speeds up and runs smoothly. You can move around the room, reliably avoid obstacles, and clean faster.

"DEEBOT OZMO T8" does not collide!

True Detect^TM strongly supports True Mapping^TM installed in DEEBOT OZMO T8. A camera is built into the front part of the main body, and 3D structured lights are illuminated from the left and right. 3D structure light is a light that illuminates undulations by illuminating an object with striped light. If the floor is flat, the stripes are projected like a grid. However, if there are obstacles or steps, the projected grid will be distorted. By checking the degree of this distortion with a camera, the height of the obstacle can be determined.

Typically, it is used in the field such as modeling the complex shape of the chest in the development of women's underwear and fitting the athlete's uniform perfectly to the body. "DEEBOT OZMO T8" detects the height of obstacles in front and low steps such as apartment entrances that cannot be detected by stair sensors.

Most of the robot vacuum cleaners are bravely trying to climb over the steps and compete with each other in millimeters, but they seem to be too brave and often get stuck on the steps. However, "DEEBOT OZMO T8" uses structured lights to check the height of obstacles in front of you. If it's within 2 cm, you can get over it. If not, give top priority to not being stuck, and try not to push yourself to get over it. It's a unique approach to steps that other companies don't have.

Especially effective is the rough situation of pets. Obstacles of about 3 x 3 x 1 centimeters can be detected as obstacles without contact by the robot vacuum cleaner, so if you clean up while you are out and come back, you will not have a disastrous result.

Experiment with toys! "DEEBOT OZMO T8" is also compatible with pets!

Even more surprising is the avoidance of power lines. With previous models, it was common to get stuck with a smartphone charging cable that had fallen on the floor. But the DEEBOT OZMO T8 uses structured lights and True Detect^TM technology to detect codes in its path, bypass them, and clean them up. I've never seen a robot vacuum cleaner that can do this trick, and it's probably the first in the world. It's a little moving.

DEEBOT OZMO T8 evading code. Only possible with advanced technology

"DEEBOT OZMO T8" not only sucks up dust, but it can also wipe water and dry at the same time. In order not to miss fine particles such as pollen, it is good to wipe with water at the same time. Easy to use, just fill the water tank with water and attach the mop unit to the main unit. A microfiber mop is attached to the main unit, so you can wash it with water and use it again and again.

When it's in wet mode, it avoids rugs and rugs, so you don't have to worry about them getting wet.

If you attach an optional electric cleaning mop (approximately 11,000 yen (tax included)) to the main unit, it will vibrate back and forth 480 times per minute, resulting in an even cleaner finish than hand mopping. For the time being, try using a standard mop, and only those who find it difficult to remove dirt should purchase it separately.

OZUMO Pro Strong Electric Cleaning Mop

The area that can be cleaned when fully charged is as follows.

For a typical home, LDK In addition to that, I can easily clean one or two more rooms. Even if your home is larger than that, you can charge it once and resume cleaning from the point where it was interrupted.

"DEEBOT OZMO T8+" is a model that comes standard with an automatic garbage collection stand. It also doubles as a charging stand, and when the main unit returns to the automatic garbage collection stand after cleaning the room, the stand's suction device cleanly collects the dust accumulated in the main unit's dust box. Garbage accumulates in the paper pack inside the stand, so it is said that there is no need to dispose of garbage for about 30 times (about 3.5 months). In other words, there is no need to dispose of garbage until the change of season.

It is a reliable function only for Ecovacs, which launched the world's first robot vacuum cleaner with an automatic garbage collection function in 2010.

"DEEBOT OZMO T8+" collecting garbage

The garbage suction port of the automatic garbage collection stand is sealed with rubber, and there are collection holes on both sides of the dust box inside the main unit, so garbage does not scatter around and remain in the dust box. is.

In addition, some of the products of other companies use plastic shutters in paper cartons, and depending on the local government, you may have to cut off and throw away the convenient shutters that do not scatter garbage. . However, since the shutter of the EcoBacs paper carton is made of paper, it is convenient to dispose of it as burnable garbage.

Since the basic cleaning function is the same as the conventional "DEEBOT OZMO 950", please refer to the previous article "The pinnacle of laser mapping technology! This is a value model!".

This time, with the "DEEBOT OZMO T8", I tried cleaning in the mop mode as well as the mopping mode.

I cleaned the room with sawdust, sand, hamster rice and fake pollen.

I left some things that were a little too big to brush off, such as cat litter and hamster rice, but other than that, the cleaning was almost perfect!

If you clean it every day with DEEBOT OZMO T8, you won't be left with any garbage. Others such as sand, sawdust and pollen were also cleaned perfectly. When cleaning, it is recommended to clean in mop mode as much as possible. With this, even if you walk barefoot on the floor, you won't feel rough at all.

Instead of the old-fashioned mapping that searches for the outline of the room by fumbling, high-precision and high-speed mapping using laser search and cutting-edge technology D-ToF, which has never been possible before, is as if a robot vacuum cleaner were used. It recognizes space and obstacles as intelligently as if it had "human eyes".

Furthermore, to strongly back it up, it captures the obstacles in front of it in three dimensions, and is it a pet's rough appearance? Is it the power cable? Or is it an obstacle that is likely to get stuck? 3D True Detect^TM using 3D structured light to detect

The fact that a high-end robot vacuum cleaner packed with these revolutionary Ecovacs' unique technologies and an automatic garbage collection stand can be obtained for around 100,000 yen is not to say that it is reasonable.

What's more, this one unit even wipes with water, so barefoot feet will be happy with the smooth and shiny flooring.

Of course, you can schedule cleaning in cooperation with your smartphone, set off-limits areas on the map, and clean only specified rooms or parts of rooms.

You who are busy living alone, you who work together and can't make time, you who are busy raising children. Let's guarantee that "DEEBOT OZMO T8+" will play an active role as a good partner.