Why is this woman smiling? Because her adorable little house-cleaning robot, iClebo, is also a vigilant guardian of the night!
South Korean robot-maker Yujin Robot plans to introduce a new version of their Roomba lookalike, iClebo, next year. Like the current model, the 2008 iClebo will go about its business while you’re not looking, vacuuming and bumping into furniture. But unlike its predecessors, the gadget will be equipped with new technology from mobile phone company KTF: a microphone, a camera and a speaker.
When the robot detects an intruder in your home, the new iClebo will be able to “bark” or send an urgent message to your cell phone. (One imagines it could also be used to break up a particularly disastrous first date, or police your children…)
Clearly, it’s just a matter of time before iClebo and its American counterpart team up to clean and fight crime outside the home, and just a little more than a matter of time (especially if the writers’ strike continues much longer) before CBS premieres the pilot of "CSI: Roomba."
Let it clean at ease! pleads the spokesperson in this video.
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