Philips Homerun, comes another robot vacuum cleaner to compete for domestic cleaning

Robotics, analysis Txaumes on March 15, 2011 | 11: 00 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

We have excellent domestic aspiradoras-robot in the market. First were the iRobot Roomba, and then came Korean alternative paths, the Hom-Bot LG and Samsung Navibot. It is now Philips which gets on this robotic ring with the Philips Homerun.

Very similar to the other automated vacuum that we have seen, the Philips Homerun also integrates multiple cameras and sensors (up to 20, according to the Dutch) to map the House. Philips her also has developed a systematic mapping software that makes to, to find an obstacle, tour several times its outline a very short distance to hurry to the maximum cleaning.

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In the latest Philips showroom, the functioning of the Homerun not seemed to us very different from the Roomba or the Navibot. Does it seem to something less erratic and more thorough than the models of Samsung and LG when making his round.

What does seem only of the HomeRun is its ability to 'jump'. The vacuum cleaner has several modes of operation. In the way carpets, the Homerun can clean surfaces of this type with fibres of up to two centimeters in height. Just as it gets on the carpets, the Homerun is capable of Eaglets above cables and obstacles up to 1.5 centimeters in height. Although not have been able to monitor during the enough time to make an analysis, at the time that we saw if he avoided quite effectively the cables we Alliance you on his way to bad milk.

The HomeRun takes an hour to clean up some forty square meters. Your deposit is quite generous and can accumulate up 0.6 liter. The vacuum cleaner is also programmable from his remote control. Philips said that its software will be updated periodically. A US connectionB can introduce new software patches. The philips homerun goes on sale in April at a price of 549 euros.

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