After an uproar 2024, in which aerobot lost its Founder and CEOColin AngleAmazon abandoned its acquisition plans, and the company laid a large part of its staff, Aerobot has returned with a major death of its robotic vacuum line.
This week, 20 years ago, a robot vacuum invented company has announced eight new models that are certainly not the Romas you are accustomed to. Not only do they look completely different, but they also work differently thanks to a new room. Leather navigation and mapping.
Aerobot has begun publishing suction Power Spring for his robot
The new lineup starts at $ 299 and goes up to $ 999. It includes vacuum and vacuum mops entry level 105 series, which has auto blank dock option, a new ship dust compactor with 205 series, and high -end 405 and 505 models that bring dual spinning moping pads to the Iroot Boat family for the first time. New boats come in black and white color and will be available for pre -order on March 18 Irobot.com Choose and European markets in the United States.
According to the company, this is the largest product launch in the history of Irobot. But this is not the biggest surprise. Aerobot eventually added leather navigation and room mapping – a technology that is mostly used by competitors – a huge change that wants to bring rapid mapping and more features in Roombas. The company is also launching a new Irobot app, which includes a real -time cleaning view with the help of Leather and has begun publishing suction power sunglasses for its robot.
According to Warren Fernandez, Aerobot’s Product Management Lead, all new models include 7,000 PAs and four suction levels. Although he said that all this is not about suction power, it is significantly lower than the competition. Robrock’s latest model, Saros 10, has 22,000 pas (but it is priced at 6,600).
Faced with mounting competition by Chinese manufacturers, aerobot has gone back to the drawing board with this new line. Fully new industrial design features, Romebas has been re -designed from the ground to accommodate a camera -based shift vslam navigation To the Leather
In an interview with Verge, Fernandez said that after reviewing technology for some time, Aerobot has now changed because he believes that Leather is finally mature and cheap, which is fit in his product roadmap.
The main advantage of leather is better mapping for the low -cost room, which includes a specific room cleaning and the ability to make a clean zone and capacit zone in the app. High -end models LT IT, it should mean sharp mapping and more fertile navigation.
Apart from this, an ultrasonic carpet detection sensor is also new on all roommates, so robots can intelligently avoid carpets when moping. Moping models now have three levels of water flow and aerobot is unique Smart Scrub Option. Earlier, most of these features were allocated for high -end Roombas, which started at $ 500.
Most models now have a leather tower, and auto -empty robbers have a very new shape. Overall, the new Rombs are very visible, such as the models of aerobot rivals: robores, dresses, and ecquarics.
In the new line, the Finances Model is $ 999 (99799) Roma Plus 505 Combo Robot Plus Author dock (yes, name and damaged). This is the first room to clean the hard floor with dual spinning mop pads. It can also extend its right mop outward to clean along the edges and lift your MOPs 10 mm to avoid low pile carpets. These features have variations in Robrobe and Dreams for a while.
505 comes with a new multi -function dock that wash and dry the MOPad, refill the MOP tank, and empty the box. It also adds to hot drying, some combo 10 Max, the top -off line robot vacuum / MOP of the Irro Boat, which was launched last summer. Like 10 Max, the AI ​​-powered barriers are detected in 505, thanks to the ship’s camera, so it should recognize and avoid things like cords, socks and pets waste.
Fernandez says the 10 Max is the current flagship model, as it has a better cleaning power than 505, but it refuses to give suction sunglasses for it. It uses a different MOP – a rear removable system that places MOP on the boot to avoid carpets. According to Fernandez, 505 new models are the only room that will support Smart Home Standard in this case, which also does 10 Max. All new models will support current integration with Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Series, and Google Home.
Romba Plus 405 Combo Robot Plus Authorizing Dock is one step less than 99 799 (9 699). It maintains the same basic functionality – mop with a scroll vacuum and spinning moping pad and a multi -dock – but it is different from 505 in some ways. It cannot increase its MOPs, detecting AI -powered obstacles (as is not a camera), and it lacks hot mop drying. It also has a standard clearance of Irobot, while 505 has a pro version, which Fernandez says is more accurate and can see small items.
The budget lineup is also getting a big conflict. The new Romba 105 and 205 series have the same leather -based mapping, 7,000 PA suction, virtual capacit zone, automatic carpet detection and avoidance, and 405 -like objects sensing and avoiding abstinence, entry level Romba I5 and combo are not available on the line.
Both new models only come in vacuum or combination options that include removable flat micro -fiber moping pad. 105 works with an auto blank dock, but uses 205 new dust compact technology. Fernandez says, “This is like a trashing manufactured version of the compactor. He says it can continue for two months before the auto blank dock, compared to 75 days. You do not need to find the auto -blank dock -LPACE space, which means that you need to buy your robot, and you need to buy any more.
The price of both series is identical: 105 VAC Robot plus automated dock for 9 449; 9 469 (9 449) for the automated dock plus 105 combo robots; 9 449 for the 205 Distocumented VAC Robot; And 9 469 (9 449) for 205 detectors Combo Robot. –
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There are some innovations here. Dust compact will appeal to people who do not like the additional disorder of these major auto -empty robbers. I have seen something like this on Narwal Frew X Ultra and found it very good. But overall, this lineup represents the Irobot to achieve competitiveness.
The people who really want to have mop pads, leather towers, and suction sunglasses, so you are getting the same
For years, under the founder and CEO Colin Angle, the company remained in its belief that its high cleaning capacity and smart robots were better. It seems that the new CEO, Gary Cohen, took a look at the competitive landscape and decided that people really want what they want is roaming the MOPad, Leather Towers and suction sugars, so you are getting it. “Last year, we took our aerobot research and development labs, and these robots are the result of the talent of our world -class engineers and designers,” he said in a press release.
It is designed to save the company that “if you can’t defeat them,” the approach is clearly designed to save the company. Pricing is competitive, and in conjunction with Rumba’s name, it is a strategy that can work well, assuming that the product is so good and reliable.
I look forward to examining a new robot to see how they stack to the current room, which has long been some of my favorite robots vacuums. But for today, I am a little sad to see that decades of innovation and enterprise are trapped in aerobot, which has a boring race by middle.
