iRobot Roomba 800 Series ditches bristles for improved performance

The Roomba 800 Series has no bristles

Image Gallery (7 images)

According to iRobot, the global market for vacuum cleaners costing over US$200 is worth $6 billion a year. The company is looking to grab a greater share of this pie with its new Roomba 800 Series robot vacuum that was rolled out this week. The 800 Series boasts a number of innovations, the biggest of which is its new AeroForce Extractors, which see conventional bristles replaced with textured rollers to provide what the company claims is a 50 percent improvement in performance.

From the outside, the 800 Series doesn't look too different from its earlier incarnations. The thick, plastic robotic disc still cruises about the room either on command or according to a preset schedule, it still comes with Virtual Wall barriers to keep it away from where it shouldn't be and Virtual Wall Lighthouses to guide it from room to room.

The 800 Series can detect dirt and debris, provide “elbow grease” to particularly dirty areas and even has a Spot Clean Mode that can be activated from its remote control. When its HEPA-filtered bin is full, it lets its owner know, and when its battery runs low, it goes back to base for a quick charge.

However, what's new isn't what’s been put in, but what’s been left out. In this case, it’s bristles.

“Bristle brushes have been around for a hundred years. With these new AeroForce Extractors, we've invented a completely different way to clean your floor,” says Colin Angle, chairman and CEO of iRobot. “With the Roomba 800 Series and AeroForce technology, iRobot is disrupting the floor care category yet again.”

According to iRobot, the bristles in the 800 series have been replaced by the new AeroForce system, featuring AeroForce Extractors. Instead of bristles, these are a set of angled, textured rollers that are counter rotating. The Extractors accelerate the air flowing between them with a suction five times stronger than in previous Roomba models. The company claims that this breaks up dirt and debris with 50 percent greater efficiency.

The upshot of this, says iRobot, is not only better cleaning, but less maintenance because eliminating the bristles also eliminates tangled hair, which should make dog owners happy. In addition, the bin is 60 percent larger and the new XLife battery battery doubles the cleaning cycles over the life of the robot.

The first of the Roomba 800 series, the Roomba 880, is available in North America for $699.99.

The video below shows the features of the Roomba 800 Series.

Source: iRobot

自動翻譯僅供參考

iRobot公司的Roomba 800系列特有的底刷模塊更能提高性能 11月13日，2013iRobot的Roomba 800系列溝渠刷毛改進performance

的倫巴800系列沒有刷毛

圖片廊（7張）

根據iRoover，全球真空吸塵器的成本超過200美元的市場每年價值60億美元。這家公司正期待著本周推出的新型RooMBA 800系列機器人真空系統獲得更大的份額。 800系列擁有多項創新，其中最大的是它的新AeroForce提取器，內見有質感的滾輪取代了傳統刷毛提供了該公司所稱是在性能上提高了50％。

從外，800系列看起來不從早期的化身太不一樣了。厚厚的塑料機器人光盤仍游輪在房間里或者在命令或根據預先設定的時間表，但它仍然帶有虛擬墻壁壘，使其遠離它不應該和虛擬墻燈塔，從房間到另一個房間引導它.

800系列可以檢測灰塵和碎片，提供“苦勞”，以特別臟的地方，甚至有現貨清潔模式，可以從它的遙控器被激活。當它的HEPA過濾紙槽已滿，它可以讓它的主人知道，當它的電池電量不足，它可以追溯到基地的快速充電。

但是，有什么新的是不是出了什么被放，但什么是被排除在外。在這種情況下，它的毛。

“豬鬃刷已經存在了一百年。有了這些新的AeroForce提取器，我們已經發明了一種完全不同的方式來清潔您的地板，“科林角度，董事長和iRobot公司的CEO。 “隨著倫巴800系列和AeroForce技術，iRobot公司被再次破壞地板護理范疇。”

據iRobot公司，在800系列中的毛已經被替換為新的AeroForce系統，具有Ae??roForce提取器。代替刷毛，這些是??一組有角度的，紋理化滾柱被反向旋轉。該提取器加速與吸入比以往的Roomba模型的五倍它們之間流動的空氣。該公司聲稱，這打破了灰塵和雜物50％更高的效率。

這樣的結果，iRobot公司說，不僅是更好的清潔效果，但較少的維護，因為省去了刷毛也消除亂蓬蓬的頭發，這將使狗的主人高興。此外，垃圾桶是60％的較大和新XLife電池電池在機器人的使用壽命將增加一倍的清洗周期

第一的Roomba 800系列，提供了Roomba 880，是在北美地區提供$ 699.99