The Scooba Robotic Floor Washer - scrub and wash with wallet ache not backache posted by Nigel in gadgets…! Scooba Robotic Floor Washer. From the same people that brought us the Roomba, comes the Scooba (who comes up with these names?) which is designed to automatically scrub, wash and clean kitchen type floors. In other words anything nice and flat and un-carpet like. Hmm…small scurrying objects and hot pots in kitchens…interesting visions. $299.95 This is the Scooba (invente
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Making robots that are intuitive and easy to use is one of the many challenges of unmanned systems. It turns out iRobot’s small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV), one of the robots going into the Army’s Future Combat System, can be controlled with a pair of specially equipped eye-glasses and a video-game handset. Bettina Chavanne, writing at Aviation Week’s ARES blog, took the SUGV out for a spin this week at Ft. Bliss, in Texas: The monocle sits over his right eye, and the controller is based
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