The Cleaning Robot

Everyone probably is familiar with the iRobot Roomba which is dominating the works in the cleaning robotics market. The iRobot does what the human does especially in the maintenance of cleanliness of the homes and the environment. The Robot that has been discovered a decade ago has many flaws when doing its job though because precisely the technology was not perfected. iRobot Roomba slams on the desk, vacuums the same corner five times and always missing some portions

dotted with dirt. This cleaner is not cute and is insensitive to the feelings of his employer and no matter how he is ridiculed by his master, he just shrugs it off and continues cleaning as if he is mindless of what is going on around him. But wait! This has been changed and improved through the invention of Mint.  Mint has a bigger brain and is the more intelligent and smarter of the two robot cleaner. Its is everyone’s favourite micro static cleaning cloth. His name is Mint, and he’s almost perfectly made to do the cleaning in a superb and efficient manner. This robot has been the main attraction in the just concluded Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. When it bumps the wall, it does not stumble, as the previous robot was experiencing, because of its perfect reflexes that always find balance every time it is bumped and pushed by any person or object.

“Mint's secret weapon is not a remarkably bigger or faster computer brain, but a new approach to indoor navigation. A small black cube, called a beacon, projects an infrared spotlight on the ceiling. Mint's upward-facing IR sensor uses that spot as a reference point as it maps out a room. Paulo Pirjanian, CEO Evolution Robotics, describes it as a micro-GPS system, with the IR spot acting as the robot's GPS satellite”. (Sofge, 2010).

For those who are still sceptical of the uses of Mint, here is the proof that robotics have been innovated successfully so far because Mint can use wet and dry Swiffer pads. It enhances the minor domestic secret of disposable, micro static cloth. The robot is very light, quiet and very effective in cleaning even if dirt is found in the corner of every home where even a human cleaner can hardly removed it. It resembles a Swiffer pad that rotates when it cleans the floor and can detect any dirt in every space of your wall and floor and it can brush the dirt completely leaving your floor very shinning.  Mint continues to clean even when it is out of your sight.  It can sweep under the beds and even continues cleaning the other room as long as it can see the glow of the beacon’s beam, a function called glow following. According to Pirjanian, (2010), “Mint has the ability to fully cover a given space three to five times faster than a Roomba and is therefore more reliable and perhaps the most human-like robot cleaner invented so far by the ingenuity of man.”

According to Coldewey (2010), “The Mint Automatic Floor Cleaning Robot is basically designed to clean all types of hard floor surfaces, such as laminate flooring, tiles or hardwood floors”.  Mint is unique because it can even pick up dirt, dust and even pet hair off the floors by mopping the area with the use of the synthetic brush.

Mint can clean the corners hardly reached when humans clean them but with the use of Mint, it can clean them completely because it uses microfiber or disposable cloths to clean hard floor surfaces.  The cloth, either dry or wet, can be bought directly from Mint Company.

“The Mint is one of the growing numbers of floor-cleaning robots that evolved after the success of the Roomba. Unlike many of the others, though, the Mint works on different principles and should be viewed as separate but related, as opposed to the cut-rate or imitation Roombas out there. This is a different product”( Review: Mint Floor-Cleaning Robot”, 2010).  In the future household members can stay away from their house for so long with the expectation that the moment they arrive home, all floors are clean and all the room corners are free of dirt because Mint is a different innovation in the cleaning industry. Mint is a different product, which will provide comfort among family members and will slice the families’ budget in hiring a house cleaner or a cleaner requested from any cleaning company.

References:

 Coldewey, D., (2010), Review: Mint Floor-Cleaning Robot, Retrieved 06.04.2011 from http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/09/25/review-mint-floor-cleaning-robot/

Mint Automatic Floor Cleaning Robot – Cleanse while You Relax, (2011), Retrieved 06.04.2011 from http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/mint-automatic-floor-cleaning-robot-cleans-while-you-relax-4099040.html

Sofge, E., (2011), The Coming Cleaning Robot War, Retrieved 06.04.2011 from http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/reviews/4341854