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Robovac Visualizes Your Home
The new Samsung VC-RP30W vacuum cleaner is not an upright - it's down on all fours, so you don't have to. The Samsung robotic vacuum cleaner draws a three-dimensional map of its environment to enable more efficient (both in time and energy) cleaning.
It's time to get rid of that old, inefficient vacuum cleaner, the one that wanders here and there, taking a random walk through your apartment. And no, I'm not talking about your senile housekeeper.
For comparison purposes, you may want to take a look at the robot gardening crab from Neuromancer by William Gibson.
See also this link for more details about the Samsung VC-RP30W Robot Vacuum Cleaner.
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