iRobot's First Wet-Dry Mop Uses Electricity to Disinfect Your Floors, Chemical-Free

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iRobot's new five-in-one floor cleaner can disinfect your floors without using any chemicals or cleaning fluids.

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iRobot may be best known for its robot vacuums, but like competitors Dreame and Roborock, it's also getting into the wet-and-dry mopping category. The Roomba Electro Plus is the company's first non-robot vacuum product, but it's also another first: It uses electricity to clean and disinfect hard floors instead of a traditional cleaning solution.

"The device uses tap water, which contains naturally occurring free chlorine," said Adam Pope, iRobot chief engineer and vice president, in a video interview with me. "A small electrical current creates hypochlorous acid from this chlorine, a safe and...

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