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Clever Little Vacuum Cleaner
Dusty Days Almost Gone
 
Clever Little Vacuum Cleaner

Matsushita has just given a preview demo of their new smart vacuum cleaner. Though it still crashes into chair legs and leaves a lot of space unswept, the developers are confident their product will reach maturity within their 2/3 years shipping deadline. The thing is still quite expensive and cost a fortune to develop, so I hope they know what they are doing!

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Wednesday 27 March, 21:15
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Robot Cleaner Ends Home Drudgery

Similar feature on the guardian:

Robot Cleaner Ends Home Drudgery

Interesting fact in the article: 50 sonic and infra-red sensors are used. This implies that some sort of probabilitist method for combining data is used, probably based on bayesian estimations.

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Thursday 11 April, 08:26
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