The new highest peak "Rumba i7 +" that no longer needs to be dusted is "not conscious"

On February 19, Irobot Japan announced the new series of the robot vacuum cleaner "Rumba", "Rumba i7 (hereinafter, i7)" and "Rumba i7 + (hereinafter, i7 +)", and at the same time holding a press experience session. Did.

Rumba i7 is a flagship model of the Rumba series to be released on February 22.Rumba i7 +, on the other hand, has been released on March 8, and has introduced a "clean bass" that automatically collects garbage in the Rumba i7 dust box in addition to the function of Rumba i7.We will deliver the actual product report mentioned at the experience session.

To the robot vacuum cleaner corresponding to "I did it!"

The biggest feature of the i7 series is the strengthening of "navigation technology", which creates "maps" in the room and learn.The flagship model "Rumba 980" so far is also a navigation technology "IADAPT 2" that makes a map of the room to be cleaned and efficiently cleaned..It was equipped with "0".

However, in the room, the number of things increases or decreases, and the position of the furniture changes unexpectedly.For this reason, IADAPT 2.In 0, I used the method of "creating a new map every time I cleaned it".In other words, after cleaning, discard the made map.

On the other hand, the new i7 is Iadapt 3 for navigation technology.Evolved to 0.I remembered and learned without forgetting the "map I made earlier".There are two major benefits from this.It is now possible to determine individual rooms and shorten the cleaning time.

The distinction of individual rooms is a function that allows Rumba to learn rooms such as "kitchen", "living room", "corridor", and "study".Conventional Rumba could only "clean one floor from end to end", but the room's discrimination function allows cleaning methods such as "only the kitchen".

For example, recently, more "LDK" houses that do not separate one floor with walls are increasing.However, there are many families who make a kitchen for making meals and the living room for eating meals, but the living room just watching TV is not so dirty.In such a case, in the case of the i7 series, it is possible to clean each area, such as "The living room and kitchen are cleaned every day, but the living room is cleaned only twice a week".

Of course, the app is specified to "clean only specific places" in the app.If you drop the ingredients in the kitchen, you can instruct Rumba to "clean only the kitchen right now!"Personally, I felt that this was more beneficial.

[Video] The sound flows.Please be careful.They instructed the i7+in the living room to "clean the children's room."You can see how the Rumba body goes straight to the children's room in the shortest route and starts cleaning.

Efficient cleaning with learning function

Another advantage is to reduce the cleaning time by grasping the shape of the room.For example, when cleaning a long and narrow corridor, it is necessary to rotate the body many times if it moves with a narrow width.

The i7, which can be learned by memorizing the map, knows that there is a long and narrow corridor, reduces the number of turns in the long side and finish cleaning more quickly.You can calculate this "route that can be cleaned in the shortest time" because it is an IADAPT 3 that memorizes map data through past learning..0 It is a function unique to the machine equipped.

[Video] The sound flows.Please be careful.Equipped with a learning function so that it can be cleaned on an efficient route.On the left is the conventional rumba, and the right is the i7 route.The i7 completes the cleaning for each room, and you can see that the speed until the end of the cleaning is quite fast.

Robot vacuum cleaner has no need for long -term "trash discarding"!

i7 + is a product that comes with a "clean base" in the same performance robot vacuum cleaner with the above i7.A clean base is a combination of the charging stand and the "automatic garbage collection" function.When the i7 returns to the charging stand, the clean base automatically sucks the garbage inside the i7.

In the clean base, a special sealed paper pack is set and used.For this reason, there is no need to worry about dust and garbage when throwing away the garbage from the base.

[Video] The sound flows.Please be careful.Return to clean base i7 +.When i7 + returns to the base, garbage is automatically started to suck.

The clean -based paper pack allows you to collect garbage of about 30 cups of i7 dust container.Once a week, if you have abandoned the garbage collected by Rumba, the number of times you throw away the garbage is less than 2 times a year.

Check the timing of trash discarding with the LED in front of the clean base.If the LED changes from white to red, it is time to replace the pack.When replacing the pack, it is judged by the sensor to check the air suction in the clean base.When the garbage in the pack increases and the suction efficiency of the garbage decreases, it is a mechanism that notifies the exchange timing.

The clean base is a hole dedicated to garbage suction on the back of the i7 + (robot vacuum cleaner) because the garbage is sucked from the lower part of the rumba body.It is important to note that i7 has no hole, so you can't buy i7 first and buy a clean base later.

Of course, the cleaning ability is also high

The high cleaning ability is also important only for robot vacuum cleaners.The i7 is a side brush with the garbage in the corner, and the dual action brush also scraped out garbage such as the back of the carpet.The dual action brush loses the garbage with the first brush, and the second is reverse.Remove the trash while closely attached to the floor.

The high maintenance is also attractive.The dual action brush is made of rubber and has no long hair, so it is easy to handle clinged hair.In addition, the dust container can be washed with water and can be kept more clean.

[Video] The sound flows.Please be careful.The cleaning ability is also improved.At the venue, a demo that allows you to check the button in sucking from below.I saw a big garbage inhaling.

At this new product presentation, Colin Angle of Irobot Corporation CEO will also come to Japan.According to Angle, "The ideal of the vacuum cleaner that I think since the release in 2002 is a product that is not conscious of existence."In other words, it is ideal to start a vacuum cleaner or to dump garbage after use, and that if you notice, the room is always clean.Mr. Angle said the i7 series, which was announced this time, was smiling all the time, when it became a very close product to this ideal.