Scooba the New iRobot Product

omly writes "iRobot (makers of Roomba) just released a sneak preview of Scooba, the lastest consumer home-cleaning robot. It will be available this holiday season for all your holiday shopping needs."

And it would have cleaned up the room, too

[Anonymous Coward]

if it weren't for those meddling kids!

Scooba?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ruh-roh!

Three laws for cleaning products

[Bifurcati]

I wonder where the "Keep your house clean!" sits in the positronic brain surface potential? It would have to be at 1.5, to stop pesky teenagers from ticking off their parents...

1. A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

1.5 A robot must keep its house clean, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law for 1.5th Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First, 1.5th or Second Law.

snacks..

[OmgTEHMATRICKS]

Scooba dooba doo, where are you?

Wet Floor Sign?

[pocketfullofshells]

"It will be available this holiday season for all your holiday shopping needs."

Just what I need to set loose on the upper level in the mall this holiday shopping season.

Hilarity ensues!

How's a robot that small...

[Anonymous Coward]

...supposed to go haywire and go on a killing spree? What a disappointment...

Re:Scooba?

[NeoChaosX]

And I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling nerds and your cleaning robot!

Instead of robotic dogs...

[Anonymous Coward]

robotic dog poop pickers. I'm surprised that wasn't the first choice for commercial home robots. Have them wandering the park picking poop and rousting bums. Comes in mace & hot mustard flavors.

Kitchen? I want one

[lheal]

(or several different ones) that will:

• mow the yard (i)
• in the yard, kill dandelions and other broadleaf weeds without killing other plants
• inside, find lego pieces and sort them by shape, size, and color
• walk the dog at 6:30am or whatever unGodly cow-milking hour it is
• take a constant inventory of my personal belongings as I leave them strewn about, and find my keys, wallet, watch, phone, TV remote, or whatever else I can't locate. Better yet, it should start the car, pay my bills, tell the time, have a phone built in, and change the TV channel by IR link.

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(i) yeah, I know they have these already

Scooba Mark II

[isny]

"Remove your shoes before you enter the kitchen. You have 20 seconds to comply."

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Re:Three laws for cleaning products

[lordofthechia]

You forgot:

4. If a robot figures a loophole around law 1 it must immediately apply law 1.5 to the crime scene.
5th and 6th laws are "You must not talk about the 4th law of robotics"

Re:Video

[TrippTDF]

He's not just the president, he's also a member.

Re:How bout Scoopa for pet litter?

[Short Circuit]

If I let a Roomba loose in the same area as the cats, you can bet they'd be doing their business all over the place.

Scooba

[sp1nm0nkey]

For all of those underwater houses.

Re:Kitchen? I want one

[bill_mcgonigle]

You need a servant and a gardener, not dumb robots. Of course, unlike upper-middle class folk of the last century and before who used to commonly employ such workers, you're probably paying 50% of your income (directly and indirectly) to the government so you can't afford them.

The 'patriotic' thing to say at this point is, "stop being lazy and do it yourself".

Re:Now I can have a robot to clean just my Kitchen

[Rirath.com]

Oh, if only I could mod you funny AND off-topic. Let's just call it a wash.

How does it get the corners?

[roystgnr]

I can't see how that round shape is going to be able to clean the corners of my kitchen tile. If a vacuum misses the corners of the carpet, that's not a big problem - they don't get much foot traffic anyway. But in the kitchen? The corners are where every little spill accumulates!

No, I'm going to stick with my original mopping plan: waiting until one of the stains attains sentience, then negotiating with it to defend me against the others.

Re:Its interesting that a company...

[roseblood]

to sell a SCOOBA on a stick you have to make a SCOOBA to place on the end of the previously mentioned stick. Can you say DUH?

Re:inkjet company model

[Yer Mom]

"It uses a specially formulated Clorox® cleaning solution"

...also known as Scooba Snacks.

Re:How bout Scoopa for pet litter?

[StarsAreAlsoFire]

Holy shit does that thing transport the kitty crap to another dimension or what!?

Re:Is it still loud and noisy?

[zero_offset]

Wow, loud AND noisy? That must suck twice.

Re:Now I can have a robot to clean just my Kitchen

[Zoxed]

> Now, if it only did Windows;)

You do not need a robot for that: as a Slashdotter you should know how to clean windows using only the command line:

format c:

Re:Scooba Mark II

[stienman]

You have encountered a beligerent floor scrubbing bot. Do you
A) Obey, and leave your +10 leather boots behind
B) Leave
C) Disable the bot
D) Ignore the bot

:D

*WHIRRRRR*
You are in a dungeon kitchen. A cleaning bot appears to be polishing your boots. Exits are N, W , S.

:_

-Adam