This Robot Vacuum Empties Itself...

Got the new, got some new room

These are the robotic, I think these were like the first guys. They did the robotic vacuum

Now they've expanded. There's a new application. These things are about a billion times smarter than they used to be

You're setting up boundaries and they're avoiding the pet bowls. And you're just not thinking about it

You're just enjoying your clean space. That's the proposition. You're sitting on your butt

You're watching Netflix and your place is getting cleaned. I don't know. That is what you want

There's another device on the table. This is not even a vacuum anymore. This one is even cleaning the floor

Anyway, this one kind of struck me immediately because I was looking at the side of the box here

And I see that this unit actually takes the dirt that it collects and sends it up into a separate bag that you dispose of

And this is, I mean, that's the hard part with these things. is emptying them out and then the dust is going all over the place. So maybe they solved that on

this particular model. But it looks like on the underside, automatic dirt disposal, perfect edge

technology. And it's called the S9 Plus, which I was amused by because it sort of sounds like a

smartphone. They know their clientele. Don't you want the new S9 Plus? I'm going to pop this out

here actually maybe I could just tip this this looks like the actual vacuum

over here put that down first accessories oh my is this the base on the other side

oh whoa yes that is the base a tremendous amount of protective packaging this is

is where your Roomba is going to charge, but it's also where your dirt is gonna go

Ooh. You lift this, what do you have? Oh my, you have a little actual, a little bag

My dirt goes in here, look at the opening on the side. My dirt is going in the bag, you're sealing the bag

you're staying very clean. People are concerned about this right now, 2020

you try to keep it contained. You pull the bag, you empty it out

We've got extra bags, of course. We have a power cable. There's a filter over here that's probably gonna fit

to the actual robot vacuum itself. What would you call this? This is a brush

It's a brush and it rotates and it cleans. All right, so this, that's kind of a look to it

with the brush, that is metal. That's cold to the touch. sensors and cameras all over the place as you would expect on a vacuum of this type, an intelligent

not sure everyday vacuum. You have a kind of combination of textures here to pick up

whatever type of filth exists in your premises. Very complex. To start you need your robot charging station and power cord Place charging station near an outlet in an area with good Wi coverage So that their only recommendation

You'll be using the iRobot Home app, which I've been told is a new application with all sorts of new features

After you've got the app, you're going to manage all your cleaning right from your mobile device

and you won't have to worry about it or think about it. Place it, yes

Plug it in, yes. Wake up the Roomba. Place your robot on the charging station

by lining up the metal charging contacts. Well, let's go ahead and have this adventure then

Why don't we? Metal charge contacts. I believe we've done it. After a few minutes, a sound will let you know it's awake

So let's go ahead and check out the new iRobot Home app

Press and hold the spot button. Ah, so that's a spot cleaning button and a home button

Press and hold the spot and home buttons on the robot simultaneously for two seconds

The lighting has now changed. We have blue, a wonderful ambient blue

Welcome to the world, S955020. So happy to have you. S955020 cleans in systematic rows across the center of rooms and then the edges

it'll avoid and redirect away from stairs but is able to navigate over thresholds it'll return home

to recharge and pick up where it left off if the battery runs low you see the beauty of this you

never have to think about it it'll learn and create an interactive smart map of your home while

it cleans so depending on the level to which you want to configure its behavior you can set up zones

and all that or you can just have it boot around and figure out your layout gives you control to

tell the device to clean specific rooms in targeted areas maybe you won't keep it out of an

area you're trying to have a romantic dinner and then the room was trying to ruin it you know

no need to worry if you rearrange furniture it's gonna adapt to the change prep your home pick up

cables cords and toys so they're telling you like listen it's a robot it's an intelligent robot but

don't be a jerk either you got the headphones they're sitting right there i mean you could pick up your own headphones i want to showcase it here on the table i'm gonna put some dirt here and stuff

but it's really designed to map a typical room and there's a few of them in here actually

So there's it will save these maps for the different areas in which it works and as you

see here like it'll figure out the boundaries where it can and can't go and then I can go in

and actually adjust this further through customization and actually it will let you

edit or add room dividers if there's a place you don't want the room but to travel

You can also label your rooms, name your map, and so forth

So I could just call this like main floor, for example. And then I can set that up within the house

I can like look at this. Okay, I'll just throw a divider. I don't want it to go into that room right there

There's lots of fancy material in that room. So I could put this divider here, but I can also go in and tap on a divider and move it

Look at that. And just set up different sections for this vacuum to operate within

I'll add it right there they kind of actually guessed the threshold to the

next room now this could be useful to you as well if you have some sort of a

drop-off maybe you have a staircase maybe you have a couple steps down to

another area this could be helpful for that reason as well now we have

something else called a keep out zone which can be within a divided area in the room keep out zone is an area you want the Roomba to avoid You can help Roomba complete more jobs successfully by placing them where Roomba could get stuck

such as around TV wires or crowded corners, so you can see the way those map out

And then you have clean zones where you want the Roomba to work. I'm going to add a keep out zone, and as you can see, it picked up certain obstacles there

so I could have it stay away. There, that could be my keep out zone

I can set the size. Here's some obstacles. I don't want the Rumba to get caught up

So I'm just going to save that. Now it's not going to go in that section. So there's actually more smarts at play here than you may think

Just looking at the device, imagining how it's interpreting its environment. As you can see here, it's also capable of mapping out places it shouldn't be

and sort of how to behave within a particular space to your liking

I can go ahead and add a clean zone. So this is completely open over here

I want the Roomba to clean all this open space right over here

I can name that zone. That could be, oh, I don't know

Desk, sure. It's very configurable. Now, how does it actually work? How does it do the cleaning

I have some junk over here to test. These are oats. these are oats we will place the oats well this is if you don't have this functionality with a

vacuum is that too many oats it's quite a few oats you know what's always amazing about oats

is it's small without the water but you add the water to the oats if you wanted to do the oatmeal

and then all of a sudden it's like that's a fair amount of oatmeal but it's a tiny little

See what I'm saying? Your coffee? Yeah. My goodness, we got the whole kitchen up here

thanks to Jack. It's coffee oats. What is that band with the oats

Yeah, hollin' oats, now we got coffee and oats. All right, we're gonna go ahead, start it up

Look at this. Oh. Whoa! To be fair, this is a difficult environment, right

because this is a treacherous scenario for a robotic vacuum. It's got to deal with the edges of the table as opposed to a floor

It could be catastrophic if it doesn't judge the area correctly. It would go, it would die, it would drop, it would crash

Good sensors

Well done. Really for a table like this, you would probably do a spot clean rather than a map

I'm realizing that now because it's trying to create a map for the table, but that's more intended actually for a room that it's going to be frequently in

Now I'm curious about the spot clean function. Yeah it like as if you have a spill or something and you want to target the room by the specific region where that took place It cool how it predicts the slamming as well as opposed to just wham right into those lights over there

It kind of slows down and butts up against it without too much damage

So the Roomba also has integrations with your smart home stuff, whether it's Amazon Alexa or Google

you could say Roomba clean my kitchen and get it moving just with your voice. So within the

favorites section of the app you can tap to clean only your preferred rooms which could be

high traffic areas or even under a kitchen table for example after dinner there may be places that

you want the Roomba to go more frequently as opposed to always covering the same rooms

Alright so the thing is filled with junk now. It's got the oats, it's got the coffee

It's got to find a way home now. Into the base station where the dirt is going to get sucked up into the canister

There's a bag up here to keep it all neat and tidy. You chuck the whole thing out after

Alright now listen for the next part. You see that

From the canister in here up to here. And then it can just head out again and you empty that out every so often

So that's a key type of thing because with a lot of these units you pull the little container

out and then the dust is going in the air and it kind of defeats the purpose. You put all these

filters and everything on there to stop the contaminants from entering the airspace and then

you just pull the tray out and it goes poof. So this is a really cool setup. It can go right back

out and start cleaning again. You set it up with the schedules. You just empty out the main unit

every so often and you're good to go. So you can configure it and manage it completely off-site as

well this thing is right now connected to the wi-fi and therefore even if i'm not at home i can

send it to start cleaning up i could be on my way back be like they used to there was a mess over

there i want to get it running you can do everything from within the smartphone app even if you're not

physically present so all right so that's the Roomba that's the initial phase of the robotic

cleanup it's gonna pick up all the dirt and dust and things like this it will work on multiple

different types of surfaces and then after that happens you can move over to the brava jet which

is this guy right here and this takes things to another level with the spraying in which case it's

going to actually clean the floor there's a number of different pads and accessories you get for it

including dry sweeping pads that could be on the hardwood floors things like this that's the hardwood

cleaning solution right there. So you put it all together, double the robots, double the fun

you kick it off with the vacuum, then you do the robot mop, and you get the full robot clean