What is amazing about the "Rumba 980" with the performance of "Rumba History"?

"Rumba 980" has been released by IROBOT as "Flagship Model" with the highest performance in Rumba history.The price of 125,000 yen is the best in history, but more attention is a completely different mapping system.

If you've ever used Rumba, you'll know, but Rumba moves around the room randomly.In fact, it is a multiple sensor that detects the room, but it looks like it is repeating the movement of the room endlessly and returning when hitting a wall or furniture.

On the other hand, mapping technology has begun to be installed as a recent trend of robot vacuum cleaners.It is a method of scanning the room, creating a map, and cleaning the room efficiently without waste.This is a technology called SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), which is also used in Google's autonomous driving cars, and is also equipped with a robot vacuum cleaner "Neato Robotics" with the same US venture company as Rumba.。

In fact, a robot vacuum cleaner equipped with a mapping system moves completely different from Rumba.Move the wall to a straight line, and when you go to the wall, you turn on the spot and return with a beautiful straight line.

Rumba has not developed a robot vacuum cleaner equipped with mapping technology, but COLIN ANGLE (Colin Angle), a CEO of IROBOT (Colin Angle), is a presentation of 980 and the conventional Rumba.He says the problem is that he couldn't make a map.

However, IROBOT is not the reason for being in hand."For 15 years, we have been working on mapping technology, and finally completed a system mounted on the 980."

However, as described above, there is already a robot vacuum cleaner equipped with a mapping system.What is the best in Rumba 980? IROBOT spoke to Ken Bazydola, who is in charge of director and product management.