iRobot Made A Non-Robot Floor Cleaner
The Roomba Electro Plus disinfects your floors without detergents.
iRobot has announced a new floor cleaner that looks a lot like one of the very traditional vacuum cleaners its robots were supposed to replace. The Roomba Electro Plus is the company's first non-robotic floor cleaner, so rather than automation, the headline feature here is a 5-in-1 cleaning solution that combines vacuuming, mopping and disinfecting in a single device.
Designed to be used on hard floors, the human-operated cordless Electro Plus transforms regular tap water into a commercial-grade disinfectant that, according to iRobot, kills 99.99 percent of bacteria, fungi, viruses and germs. If you're wondering how this is possible, iRobot's chief engineer and vice president, Adam Pope, told CNET that it takes the naturally occurring chlorine in the water from your tap and creates hypochlorous acid with it using an electrical current.
Because it eschews chemicals and toxins of any kind...
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