Just when you thought robot vacuums had run out of ideas, iRobot rolled into IFA Berlin with a machine that gives birth. Meet the Roomba Duo: a big can-shaped bot that steam-cleans your floors, then cracks open like a hatch and lowers a tiny companion robot down to handle the spots it can't reach. It's a concept, not a product — and it's still the most fun anyone has had with a vacuum in years.
The Duo eyeing its enemy: a pile of spaghetti on the demo mat. Steamer first, surgeon second.
The whole family at iRobot's booth — the Duo center shelf, arm extended like it's greeting guests.
That face. Glowing green eyes, purple underglow — a vacuum with more stage presence than most gadgets at the entire show.
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No price, no release date, no guarantee it ever ships. Classic concept-car energy: look at it, want it, can't have it. But after the stretch iRobot has been through lately, showing up in Berlin with its weirdest idea in years feels like exactly the right kind of desperate.
Source: Gizmodo
