Samsung does the Roomba

Juniper Foo | Mar 28, 2008

All good things come to him who waits. If you can just take your mind out of the gutter, we're clearly not referring to the accessory in the backdrop, but to the model in the red, hot number. Enter Samsung's Hauzen premium-branded VC-RE70V, which is about to give Roomba's robot floor vac some chick-to-chick competition, right down to the Bobby Brown lipstick rouge.

This isn't the the first robot vac out by the chaebol, though there's been some effort at styling it up this time. Closeup, this Hauzen resembles a giant dust mite magnified a million times over, but prettier. Using cameras to automatically map the room in 3D to be cleaned, it has enough built-in smarts to avoid obstacles and return to base to juice up when the power guage starts to dip. The Hauzen should be out in Korea by end month, with an expected premium price for all that sophisticated gadgetry. Though remember that if you hear something go bump in the night, it's just another vacuum bot biting the dust.