iRobot’s new Roomba could solve the roller mop’s biggest problem

The robovac automatically shields its mop truthful it tin cleanable carpets.

iRobot’s archetypal roller mop-equipped robovac has a unsocial instrumentality to assistance support your carpets dry. Announced this week, the Roomba Max 705 Combo is an upgraded mentation of the robovac iRobot launched successful April, offering a “first-of-its-kind” mop screen that it automatically deploys erstwhile cleaning carpets.

Unlike with mopping pads, galore robovacs with roller mops often can’t assistance up their mops to wide carpets, nor tin users — or the robovac itself — easy region them. Robovacs similar the Deebot X8 Pro Omni effort to debar getting your carpets bedewed by vacuuming them archetypal with a adust mop oregon allowing you to acceptable boundaries astir them.

It sounds similar the Roomba Max 705 Combo volition effort to hole the carpet dilemma with its caller mop cover, though iRobot doesn’t stock however precisely it works, different than showing an representation of what looks similar a integrative shield that extends astir the bottommost of the mop roller.

The Roomba Max 705 Combo tin besides widen its mop to scope corners and the edges of walls. Like the 705-series robot vacuum iRobot launched successful the spring, the Max 705 Combo features anti-tangle dual rubber brushes, lidar navigation, and the quality to debar toys, cords, and favored waste.

The Roomba Max 705 Combo besides comes paired with an AutoWash Dock that offers heated mop cleaning and drying for up to 75 days, on with auto-emptying and auto-refilling functions. This robovac doesn’t travel inexpensive astatine €1099 (~$1,292 USD). It’s besides lone disposable successful Europe for now, but iRobot says it plans to motorboat the instrumentality successful North America and Japan “later this year.”